Ruan Zhengyu turned around suddenly and stared at Ruan Tiande fiercely.
At this time, Ruan Tiande was still crying in the cell.
Ruan Zhengyu stared at Ruan Tiande for a while, then threw up his robe and sleeves and walked out of the cell. Ruan Zhengyu was closely followed by several personal guards and the prison chief in charge of the cell.
After Ruan Zhengyu came to the square of the prison, he thought for a moment and said to the old man next to him: "Prepare a sumptuous dinner for the emperor's uncle tonight, and then send him away."
The prison boss often did this kind of thing. Now after listening to Ruan Zhengyu's words, he naturally understood what the king was thinking.
"Your Majesty, I will take care of the little one for you, and send the general on his way tonight in a safe manner."
After Ruan Zhengyu heard this, he nodded with satisfaction and then returned to the palace.
On the way back to the prince, Ruan Zhengyu thought about the method Ruan Tiande gave him.
Although Ruan Tiande wanted to exchange the Ruan family for the whole of Annan, and he would not do such a thing, he could still use some of his strategies.
In the prison, the cell leader prepared several exquisite side dishes and a jug of good wine according to Ruan Zhengyu's instructions, and delivered them to Ruan Tiande's cell in the evening.
Seeing this scene, Ruan Tiande didn't understand why their king might not be able to tolerate him.
Ruan Tiande did not cry, but silently poured a glass of wine and drank it in one gulp.
When the cell leader next to him saw Ruan Tiande like this, he was a little sad and said, "Sir, you are still too stubborn. If you could say a few nice words, how would you end up like this?"
Ruan Tiande shook his head, and then said: "It's not that I'm too stubborn, it's actually that the king only has one family in his heart, and a great disaster is not far away for Annan."
The prison head thought for a while, and then asked in a low tone: "I heard you when you were talking to the king. Is it really like this?"
Ruan Tiande thought for a while and said: "It's even more dangerous than this. If one thing goes wrong, our Annan Kingdom will become slaves of the Central Plains people for generations to come."
After hearing this, the prison head trembled a little, but Ruan Tiande smiled and said to the prison head: "You don't have to worry, I have already thought of your future. If you go to my home with my letter, my family will be there naturally."
Will keep you safe."
After hearing this, the old man's eyes lit up and he immediately left the cell. After a while, he prepared the four treasures of the study and a small desk and sent them to Ruan Tiande. Ruan Tiande did not hesitate and immediately wrote a letter, and then
Seal it carefully and give it to the old prison boss.
That night, the letter was delivered to Ruan Tiande's home. After reading the letter, Ruan Tiande's son sighed and made secret preparations. In the next few days, Ruan Tiande's family moved like a mouse.
Little by little, he left Shenglong Mansion and headed south.
Early the next morning, Ruan Zhengyu immediately ordered a court meeting, and all qualified civil and military ministers must attend the court.
Ruan Zhengyu sat on the big seat above the palace, looked at the people below and said: "Now that I am in danger, all the beloved ministers have been unable to do anything during the discussions in the past few days. In this case, I will make my own decision."
The ministers below all breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this. Now they really have no ideas to come up with.
Ruan Zhengyu said with an excited face: "The Central Plains are ruthless and invade our territory. Naturally, we Annan people should rise up and resist."
Ruan Zhengyu said that he looked down at the civil and military personnel below and saw them standing there with expressionless faces. He sneered in his heart. For the benefit of the family, these people did not take the country's important affairs into their hearts. Now he let them steal
The chicken cannot eat the rice.
"It is at this time when the country is in crisis that we must break up our family and build up our country. I have sent my order to the nobles in the south to immediately gather their servants and cronies to assemble in Sheng Long City and listen to my king's arrangements."
Ruan Zhengyu thought about it all night last night and felt that if he wanted to consume his strength, he might as well consume all the strength of the nobles in the south. Even if he was defeated in the end, he could still survive in the south. Otherwise, he would consume all his men and horses.
I arrived in the south alone, but in the end I was no longer the puppet of these nobles.
After hearing Ruan Zhengyu's words, some of the ministers standing there immediately became excited, while others whispered.
Because these great civil and military ministers whose families are in the north naturally want southern troops to go north for reinforcements.
The civil and military ministers in the south were extremely unwilling to go north to fight Jia Ke with eggs against stones.
These whispering ministers finally recommended one person, Tai Fu Du Lin.
This Du Lin is not an ordinary person. He is a great nobleman in the south and the leader of the noblemen in the south.
In order to win over these people in the south, Ruan Zhengyu's father specially invited him out of the mountain and appointed him as Ruan Zhengyu's tutor. It was because of this move that the south began to resist from time to time and began to calm down.
Ruan Zhengyu didn't dare to neglect him when he saw this person coming out, "Teacher, I don't know what to say."
Du Lin came out and touched his gray beard, and then said: "Your Majesty, now that the north has been occupied, all the supplies of the imperial court are supported by the south. If the south is allowed to send troops to resist, I am afraid that the place will be unstable. In the opinion of the veteran
, since the south has sent supplies, let the north send troops."
After Ruan Zhengyu heard this, his expression changed. He already understood that these nobles in the south had already begun to think carefully.
"This is absolutely impossible. When foreign enemies invade, they will naturally have to work together. How can we separate the north from the south? I have already made up my mind. There is no need to say more, Taifu."
Seeing this situation, Du Lin wanted to remonstrate, but Ruan Zhengyu could not get him to speak again. He directly ordered the people below: "Immediately pass on the king's order. The nobles in the south must raise 20 yuan for me."
Thousands of horses."
The civil and military officials below began to change their expressions when they heard this. You must know that for the densely populated and economically developed areas in the north, 200,000 troops can still be raised.
However, except for the Champa generation, the south is still prosperous and the population in other places is not densely populated. It is not so easy to raise these 200,000 troops.
But Ruan Zhengyu was determined after eating the weight, and must let the south gather the troops quickly.
Although Du Lin had no choice but to agree to Ruan Zhengyu in the court, after they returned home, the nobles in the south held successive meetings.
Although they complained a lot, Du Lin still took the overall situation into consideration. As the leader of the south, he temporarily suppressed all kinds of complaints. After all, now that the country was in danger, the nobles in the south had to make certain decisions.
compromise.
So the noble leaders in the capital each wrote letters and sent them to the south, asking their families to prepare quickly.
After a lot of effort, they finally raised 200,000 horses and sent them to the vicinity of Shenglong Mansion. Now there are more than 500,000 people near Shenglong Mansion.
But Ruan Zhengyu is not optimistic about these troops. How can these newly gathered mobs compare with the 4 to 50 million elite soldiers in the Central Plains?
Although Ruan Tiande has some shortcomings, his strategy is still good.
So Ruan Zhengyu sent south according to Ruan Tiande's plan. These 200,000 troops began to attack Jia Ke's troops going south on the road.
Although these troops are not worth mentioning in frontal battles, they seem to be natural experts in these sneak attacks.
These people either broke into pieces or suddenly gathered together. They kept making sneak attacks on Jia Ke's troops going south. In particular, Jia Ke's two teams were harassed several times. If it weren't for the heroic and skillful Guangxi wolf soldiers, these people would be driven back.
, I'm afraid Jia Ke will lose a large part of his food.
Jia Ke had foreseen this situation a long time ago, but Jia Ke didn't take it to heart. If it were in modern times, these guerrilla warfare tactics would still be very powerful.
However, in ancient times, transportation was inconvenient and transportation was also very difficult. If an army was without supplies for a long time, it would soon collapse.
Therefore, Jia Ke ordered his captured soldiers to gather all the villages and towns they encountered, and then concentrated these people in several important strongholds.
Although Jia Ke's move was a bit crazy, it was very effective. Annan's sneak attack troops lost important supplies.
The number of these sneak attacks seemed to be quite small. They were very rampant at the beginning, but after losing supplies, the frequency of attacks gradually became weaker and weaker. In the end, they were not even able to launch a large-scale attack.
In the end, these people were even captured by Jia Ke's soldiers, who followed the traces and found several places where they had stationed troops. This turned these Annan soldiers into fish in the net.
According to Jia Ke's statistics along the way, they killed at least 30,000 Annan soldiers on the road from Longcheng Pass to Shenglong Mansion.
In fact, Jia Ke didn't know that he had killed far more Annan soldiers than that.
When these defeated remnants returned to Shenglong Mansion, Ruan Zhengyu counted only twenty or thirty thousand people who came back, and the other hundreds of thousands of people were all missing.
Ruan Zhengyu is also very satisfied with this arrangement. The south has lost so many troops, and it seems that he will be very honest in the future. If he is defeated and retreats to the south, his safety will be guaranteed.
But Ruan Zhengyu didn't know that on the secret path leading to the south, hundreds of thousands of people were rushing back day and night.
It turned out that Du Lin had already seen Ruan Zhengyu's thoughts, so Du Lin also came up with a countermeasure, which was to ostensibly follow Ruan Zhengyu's orders, go to harass Jia Ke, and secretly withdraw most of the elites to the south.
Du Lin also has his own little calculation. As long as there are people around, no matter whether Ruan Zhengyu wins or loses in the future, they will be safe in the south.
The worst plan is to surrender to Jia Ke. By then Jia Ke will also need people like them to stabilize his rule. Although there will be some losses, the foundation will not be lost and it will take a few years to recover.
Ruan Zhengyu naturally didn't know this. Now, he felt that he no longer had any worries, so he gathered all the 300,000 troops he had just summoned into Shenglong Mansion, hoping to fight an offensive and defensive battle with Jia Ke and weaken Jia Ke's strength as much as possible.
, so that when he retreats to the south, Jia Ke will be unable to invade south, which will give him some breathing space.
The next day after Ruan Zhengyu was ready, Jia Ke came to Shenglong Mansion with more than 500,000 men and horses.
Ruan Zhengyu stood at the top of the city and looked at the boundless people and horses below the city. He was not afraid that it was a lie. Originally, the Central Plains troops were elite. In addition, with the surrender of more than 200,000 Annan soldiers on his side, this battle was not easy to fight.