"Shixie Taishou, what happened in Wuyangling, you must already know about it."

Liu Zheng only brought 3,000 soldiers and horses to Guangxin City this time, he did not come to Guangxin City, and he also knew that it was impossible to defeat Guangxin City with only 3,000 soldiers and horses.

The purpose of his coming was to serve the scholars in Guangxin City.

Therefore, with the power of his own tongue, he must persuade the scholars to take refuge in him.

In this way, he can control Cangwu County and even the entire Jiaozhou as quickly and steadily as possible.

After coming to Guangxin City, Liu Zheng did not aggressively launch a threatening attack on the soldiers and horses of the Shi family in the city, but only led people to be stationed at one of the city gates, waiting for Shi Xie, the head of the Shi family in the city, to come over.

As soon as Shi Xie arrived on the tower of the city, Liu Zheng shouted at Shi Xie.

When Shi Xie saw Liu Zheng's army under the city, although the expression on his face was a little gloomy, he was not too afraid, as if he had known for a long time that Liu Zheng's army would come back again.

"Father, what should I do now, those bandits are back again!"

Shi Xie's sons gathered around Shi Xie, and they had no idea for a while, waiting for Shi Xie to take the idea.

Shi Xie looked at the sons around him, as well as a group of soldiers defending the city, most of these soldiers were cronies of their Shi family, if they were buried in the battle with Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses, their Shi family would really die out in this big war.

But at this time, if he really took refuge with Liu Zheng and joined Liu Zheng in the same stream, Shi Xie was worried that after all, the world was still the world of the Han Dynasty, and he and Liu Zheng were mixed together, but it would be a betrayal of the imperial court, and when the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court arrived.

He still can't escape the word "extinction", but one is immediately wiped out by Liu Zheng's army, and the other is wiped out by the future imperial army.

Of course, everyone knows how to choose, of course Shi Xie will choose to temporarily surrender to Liu Zheng, otherwise as soon as Liu Zheng's army arrives, Shi Xie will not have the slightest confidence in resisting.

At the same time, he also knew that the terrible strength of Liu Zheng's army, as well as Liu Zheng's other army of soldiers and horses hidden in Wuyangling, an army of nearly 20,000 people, could easily wipe out Guangxin City.

"Liu Zheng, your identity, after all, is a thief, if I cooperate with you, the court will not let me go. Don't talk about it again. ”

After Shi Xie finished speaking, he turned his head directly and no longer appeared on the city tower.

Liu Zheng wanted to say something, but when he saw Shi Xie turning his head and leaving without looking back, he didn't speak.

Zhou Cang stood by Liu Zheng's side, and when he saw that Shi Xie on the city tower was so arrogant, he immediately became angry.

"Qu Shuai, this old guy is too arrogant, let's send troops directly, take down this small city, capture him alive, and see how arrogant he is!"

Liu Zheng looked at Zhou Cang, but shook his head.

"No, don't rush to attack, let's set up camp like this."

Liu Zheng didn't speak again, but just let his people wait here.

As it gets darker and darker, night falls.

Liu Zheng had been sitting in his big tent and had not left, he was waiting, waiting for someone from the city sergeant's family to come to him.

Shi Xie's rejection of him on the city tower does not mean that Shi Xie is really not interested, but Shi Xie, as the head of the Shi family, has to consider the Shi family, and in front of so many people on the city tower, it is naturally impossible to directly announce his cooperation with Liu Zheng.

Their cooperation can only be done in private.

Therefore, Liu Zhengcai did not attack directly, but chose to wait, wait for the evening, and see if the people from the Shi family would come to him.

And his guess was right, after the sky gradually darkened, he sat down in the big tent for a short time.

Soon the news came from the heralds that someone had come looking for him.

Liu Zheng quickly asked people to bring them in.

Not long after, Shi Xie took a few people and came to this big tent in person, asking to see Liu Zheng.

Shixie, who was nearly fifty years old, appeared in front of Liu Zheng with people, and Liu Zheng took a closer look at the actual controller of Jiaozhou in the future.

"Shi Xie Taishou, come to me so late, I don't know what's going on?"

Liu Zheng could probably guess in his heart at this time what Shi Xie came to him for, but he still had to ask clearly and ask Shi Xie what he thought.

Shixie sighed.

"General Liu Zheng, Shi Xie, on behalf of the Shi family, is willing to accept Liu Zheng's proposal, and from now on, General Liu Zheng will be the leader."

The expression on Shi Xie's face was not good-looking, before, he was actually not optimistic about Liu Zheng, after all, Liu Zheng was just a thief, but the strength shown by Liu Zheng had opened his eyes, and he had no choice but to pull down his face for help for the safety of the whole family.

"Oh? Didn't you refuse me in one bite when you were on the city tower before, why did you come to me again at night? Say you'd like to work with me? ”

Liu Zheng was curious.

Shi Xie sighed again, and could only explain to Liu Zheng.

"The general doesn't know, I sent a group of soldiers and horses to ask for help before, and went to Cangwu City to find Zhu Fu for help, the people who supported the soldiers were my brother and son, they haven't come back yet, I think most of them stayed with Zhu Fu, if I promised to surrender the general on the city tower during the day, my son and brother would inevitably be killed by Zhu Fu, for the sake of the safety of my son and brother, I can only refuse on the surface."

Shi Xie's explanation can satisfy Liu Zheng, after all, the soldiers and horses in Guangxin City who asked for help were indeed released by him, if this is the case, it is normal for Shi Xie to refuse him during the day.

"Shi Xie Taishou, you can cooperate with me, it really makes me excited, with your help, I will capture Cangwu County much faster, you can rest assured, I Liu Zheng has always been a trustworthy person, I can promise you, in the future, when I unify the entire Jiaozhou, the status of your Shi family will definitely not be worse than now, it will only be better."

Liu Zheng drew a big cake for Shi Xie, and then happily accepted Shi Xie's surrender, and communicated with Shi Xie in this big tent on how to unify the entire Cangwu County as quickly as possible.

In fact, there is no difficulty, he Shixie is the Taishou of Cangwu County, and most of the seven small counties in Cangwu County are controlled by his cronies. As long as Shixie says a word, the county orders in those small cities will be handed over to the county seats.

And Shi Xie's request was that Liu Zheng did not have to announce the Shi family and his alliance, so that he could continue to maintain his current position, and on the surface, Liu Zheng would not come to harass him, so that the shouting court still thought that he did not defect to Liu Zheng.