Five miles away, Guo Song is also looking at the distant Shanzhou city under the embrace of everyone, the situation in Tubo and the Tang Dynasty in the past two years was calm, and many people in Longyou began to return home from Hexi one after another, Shanzhou Dacheng originally had 20,000 households, and now it has recovered to 5,000 households, but most of the people of Longyou have a stable life in Hexi, and they are not far back.

This is also the reason why Guo Song wants to take Longyou, Hexi alone, can not accommodate more than 600,000 displaced people at all, must let Longyou bear most of the displaced people, Longyou has a vast area, fertile land, and many areas suitable for farming, and the Hehuang Valley alone can accommodate a million people.

As long as it can effectively prevent Tibet, Longyou will inevitably become its own grain production area.

In fact, the climate of Longyou in the Sui and Tang dynasties was mild and humid, with abundant precipitation and fertile land, and it has always been a famous farming area in the Tang Dynasty.

Liang Wu next to him couldn't help but ask: "You value this Zhang Feng very much?" ”

He has been following Guo Song for a long time, and it is the first time he has seen Guo Song write a letter to persuade him to surrender.

Guo Song smiled faintly, "Actually, it's not important, this Zhang Feng and I are old acquaintances, when I came down from Kongtong Mountain, passing by Xiao Pass, this Zhang Feng is Xiao Guan's guard, at that time I made a fortune from him, and he also persuaded me to be his subordinate brigade commander, I refused, this blink of an eye is more than ten years have passed, but it seems to happen like yesterday." ”

Speaking of this, Guo Song couldn't help but sigh lowly.

Liang Wu understood, he knew that Guo Song was a very nostalgic person, and this Zhang Feng should have left a good impression on him, so he had today's pity.

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That night, Guo Song did not give the order to attack the city, he was still patiently waiting for Zhang Feng's reply, Zhang Feng almost didn't sleep all night, this night's time finally made him figure out a little, Guo Song Xu gave him the title and official position was not canonized by the Southern Tang Dynasty, but Guo Song himself gave him the title, just like the assassination history of Hexi and Beiting, which has nothing to do with the imperial court, it was appointed by Guo Song himself.

But after figuring this out, Zhang Feng couldn't sleep even more, Guo Song is of course the king of the domain town now, but how far can he, the king of the town, go in the future? Can he surpass Zhu Jun? Zhang Feng really didn't have a bottom in his heart.

As the day gradually dawned, the thousands of defenders at the head of the city were nervous all night, and the Hexi army did not come to attack the city, which made them breathe a long sigh of relief, and many soldiers were so sleepy that they sat on the ground and fell asleep.

At this moment, more than a dozen soldiers of the Hexi Army rushed to the easternmost part of the north of the city, led by two strong men carrying a heavy large jar, and the soldiers next to them held a huge shield to protect them, just when they were dozens of steps away from the city wall, they were discovered by the defenders at the head of the city, and the defenders immediately sounded the alarm.

There are many ravines outside the north of the city, and the terrain is undulating, which is not suitable for attacking the city, resulting in very few defenders on the north city wall, only a patrol of more than 100 people, and the alarm bell alarmed the chief general in the west of the city, and he immediately sent a thousand soldiers to rush to the north of the city with rolling logs and stones.

At this time, the patrol soldiers at the head of the north city have begun to drop arrows downward, basically to no avail, the soldiers of the Hexi Army are very well protected, not only holding their shields high, but also wearing shields in front and back like turtle shells, the helmets are specially made of pig iron, and even the neck is wrapped, and the lower body is wearing chain mail like a skirt to protect the legs.

They crossed the moat with planks and found the crack, which was about half a foot wide, and the hole inside could be clearly seen, and the two strong men struggled to pry down a dozen pieces of the city wall, revealing a large black hole, into which they stuffed heavy iron fire mines and lit the fire rope.

"Run!"

More than a dozen soldiers turned around and fled, and the patrol soldiers fired dozens of arrows in a row, but they were blocked by the protection of the Hexi army.

One soldier turned around and shouted, "Fools, run for your life!" ”

The soldiers on the city also faintly felt that something was wrong, and they left the city one after another, and retreated.

More than 1,000 supporting defenders had also arrived, and there were still more than 300 paces to the corner.

That's when 'Boom! There was an earth-shattering explosion inside the city wall, countless bricks and stones rose into the sky with thick smoke, the city wall shook violently, the earth trembled, and the soldiers who were running on the city head fell down in fright, but fortunately, the iron fire and thunder exploded in the city, and the sound wave impact was not strong.

But the north city fell into disrepair and could not withstand the violent shaking, and collapsed section by section.

Zhang Feng rushed to the north city wall with a large group of soldiers, he was immediately stunned by the scene in front of him, only to see that a large hole in the north city near the east wall exploded a large hole several zhang wide, and a large section of the city wall collapsed, a mile long, there were many injured soldiers, and many soldiers were digging up the wall bricks and pulling out the buried soldiers inside.

Everyone was shocked, what kind of weapon is this, so powerful?

Zhang Feng let out a long sigh and said to the left and right generals: "Prepare to surrender in Kaecheng!" ”

On the last day of August, the Tang army carried out a deterrent strategy with iron fire and thunder, completely destroying the last chance of the main general Zhang Feng, he led an army of 10,000 out of the city to surrender to the Hexi army, and sent orders to the soldiers of the Longyou Army in various places, asking them to turn their allegiance to the Jiedu Mansion in Hexi.

Guo Song began to reorganize the Longyou army, and at the same time ordered the army of displaced people in Longyou to start harvesting wheat, and the entire Longyou army and people were thrown into the autumn wheat harvest.

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There is a mansion covering an area of 30 acres in the southeast corner of Chang'an Fengle Fang, which was originally the mansion of Pei Mian of the former Xiangguo, Pei Mian's son fled to Chengdu, and this official mansion was confiscated by Zhu Jun and rewarded to Zhang Feng, becoming Zhang Feng's family home.

According to the common practice of all dynasties, all the generals who command the army abroad must live in the capital, and Zhang Feng is naturally no exception, and his wife, children, and mother all live in the capital.

Zhu Jun sent another twenty men to be stationed outside his mansion, nominally to protect them, but in fact to surveillance.

As early as two months ago, Guo Yuniang personally led more than a dozen men to the capital, and she had only one task in Beijing this time, to rescue Zhang Feng's wife, children, and mother from Chang'an before the end of August and send them to Hexi.

Although it only takes one day to save people, it took two months to plan the rescue, including learning about the soldiers who were monitoring Zhang's mansion, sending people to dress up as florists to go undercover inside Zhang's mansion, and continuing to look for other monitors.

On August 30, that is, the day when the Tang army arrived in Shanzhou, a messenger came to Zhang's mansion, this messenger was Zhang Feng's former personal soldier, because his parents died of illness and returned to Yuanzhou to guard filial piety, he was coerced and lured by Tiancelou, and took his wife and children hostage, this pro-soldier had to agree to serve Tiancelou.

This personal soldier is called Jiang Wulang, Zhang Feng's wife and mother know him, since he is sending a letter for the master, everyone is convinced.

In the guest hall, Zhang Feng's wife Liang finished reading the letter written by her husband, which was actually a note, a very simple sentence, he had arranged for someone to let his family leave Chang'an as soon as possible and go to Longyou, but the reason was not written.

Liang asked in surprise: "Okay, why does the master want us to go to Longyou?" ”

"The lord has lost two battles in a row, Zhu Jun summoned the lord to Beijing, probably to kill the lord, the lord didn't want to enter Beijing, but he was worried about the safety of his family, so he asked the lady and the old lady to go to Longyou."

Liang's face changed in fright, and he said repeatedly: "Then what should I do?" ”

"Madame will pack up some of her belongings, and wait in the inner house with her family tonight, the lord has arranged manpower, this is to be kept secret, even the next person can't say, if someone tells the truth, the lord will die."

Liang nodded in fright, and hurriedly retrieved his son and daughter and helped her clean up.

The time that the pro-soldier Jiang Wulang made an appointment was the fifth watch, and the time gradually reached the fourth watch, more than a dozen black shadows appeared in an alley opposite Zhang's house, and the person headed by Guo Yuniang was Guo Yuniang, they observed for two months, and they had already figured out the soldiers who monitored Zhang's mansion, a total of twenty soldiers, living in the alley, they were not monitoring Zhang's mansion day and night, and the time of opening and closing the door was synchronized, and they would sleep at night.

More than a dozen warriors climbed into the courtyard wall, and they were ruthless, silently killing all twenty sleeping soldiers, and then went straight to Zhang's mansion.

Zhu Jun also created a secret samurai group called Meihuawei, which specially monitored hundreds of officials for him, and would also assassinate and eliminate some thorny officials.

In addition to sending 20 soldiers to monitor Zhang's mansion, Meihuawei also sent a person to go undercover in Zhang's mansion to monitor Zhang's family's movements from the inside.

Tiancelou spent a lot of energy to find this person, this person's surname is Li, everyone calls him Lao Li Tou, he is the chauffeur of Zhang's house, and he specializes in driving cars for Zhang's family, so he knows very well where the Zhang family goes.

Lao Li Tou lived in the outer house, and at the fifth watch, he was still asleep, but a black shadow had quietly entered his room, and the black shadow flashed to the side of his bed, covered Lao Li Tou's mouth, and plunged a quenched dagger into his heart.