With a thud, one of the armorers slammed through the door and fell heavily in front of the table, unable to stand up even though he still held the knife in his hand, and after a few struggles, he finally let out a long breath and stopped moving.

Shi Zhuang with a lance appeared at the gate, and almost all the armorers outside who did not want to leave died under his lance.

In the lobby, Fei Zhong was sitting at the table, drinking wine one by one, and there was a table full of dishes in front of him, but these dishes did not have the slightest heat.

Shi Zhuang stepped into the lobby and sat across the table.

Fei Zhong raised his glass to him across the table: "General Shi, do you want to have a drink?" ”

Shi Zhuang looked at Fei Zhong and said with a smile: "General Fei, your nose is bleeding, how long have you been drinking?" Leaning over, he took the flask from opposite Fei Zhong, opened the lid, sniffed it, and shook his head: "Why bother?" With your status, you don't have to die, and if you are willing to cooperate with us, even glory and wealth are within reach. ”

Fei Zhong smiled, wiped his nose with his hand, lowered his head to look at the blood on the back of his hand, wiped it on the placket of his clothes casually, and said: "General Shi, this is humiliating me, Fei still has this integrity, loyal ministers don't care about the two masters, since they can't help the lord to succeed, he should be the lord's death festival." ”

"What kind of lord is Zhang Zhongwu?" Shi Zhuang sneered.

"If Zhang Jieshuai is nothing, then what is Li Ze?" Fei Zhong smiled: "At least for now, Zhang Shuai is only afraid that there will be more merits than Li Ze." ”

Shi Zhuang is not a person who messes around, and he naturally understands the meaning of Fei Zhong's words. Zhang Zhongwu naturally has a credit for the entire Tang Empire, if it weren't for Zhang Zhongwu's defeat of the rising Khitan Empire in more than ten years, and the other party was beaten back to the era of tribal slaves, maybe the north of the Tang Dynasty has been reduced to the other party's pasture!

No matter what Zhang Zhongwu's final result is, he will naturally have a position above history, and his descendants will comment on the merits and demerits, and he, Fei Zhong, as Zhang Zhongwu's most important general, will not leave a mark on history.

And Li Ze, so far, if you really want to talk about the credit to this country, of course, it is not as good as Zhang Zhongwu.

"Even if you don't want to surrender to us, you can live. I think our festival commander will be very interested in keeping you alive and letting you see who is more desirable in the end. General Fei, it's better to die than to live, what kind of medicine did you put in the wine? If you say it, maybe it will save your life? ”

Fei Zhong smiled and wiped another handful of nosebleeds, and deliberately spread it in front of Shi Zhuang's eyes, "I can't be saved." ”

Seeing that the blood was slowly turning black, Shi Zhuang shook his head regretfully.

"I am the first staff member under the account of the festival marshal, and the section commander raised troops against the Tang Dynasty, and I also supported and planned it with one hand, it's a pity, I miscalculated Chengde's strength, which led to a wrong step, a wrong step." Fei Zhong was bleeding from his nose and drinking wine, "Until now, I have to break my wrist, give up nearly half of the territory, and retreat to a more bitter cold place to struggle for survival." Naturally, someone needs to be held accountable for such a big failure. Otherwise, what will the marshal use to use the prestige of the army and what to use to unite the army's heart? There is no better candidate than me. ”

"For Zhang Zhongwu's sake, you actually let Fei Shi accompany the funeral? Do you know that if all this blame falls on your head, you Fei clan are afraid that there will be no place for you to live in Lulong! ”

"It's okay!" Fei Zhong said: "If the marshal can make a comeback and revitalize the rivers and mountains in the future, our Fei family will naturally be the first hero, then the current efforts are worth it." Even now, those juniors and elites of the Fei family should suffer some hardships, the older generation of the Fei family, except for a few who withdrew, the rest died in Jicheng, with these people at the bottom, the younger generation is suffering some setbacks! This will be more beneficial to their growth, jade is not a weapon, these years, they are too pampered. ”

"Got it!" Shi Zhuang nodded, even if he was an enemy, an enemy like Fei Zhong still made him hate it, but it could make people feel a sense of respect in their hearts, and similarly, defeating such an enemy also made him feel more accomplished in his heart.

"I want to tell you one thing, Guancheng has been captured by us a few days ago, and the 15,000 Lulong soldiers stationed in Guancheng have all been wiped out, except for more than 3,000 people who have been captured, everyone else has been killed in battle. Feng Lun also died in battle. Therefore, Zhu Hancheng couldn't escape, and now he has fallen into our encirclement on all sides. ”

"Originally, they did their best and obeyed the fate of heaven, it was their luck to escape, and it was their fate not to escape." Fei Zhong took another sip of wine, and at this time, his condition was already extremely weird, and blood had begun to seep out of the seven orifices, which made the Wuwei soldiers who came in one after another outside shocked and a little shocked.

"When you die, I will bury you well." Shi Zhuang stood up: "Aren't your Fei clans in Jicheng by the ancestral grave?" I'll bury you somewhere, and of course, I'll tell you to go down and protect it. ”

After saying this, Shi Zhuang stood up and walked out, but behind him, Fei Zhong stood up with the table, facing Shi Zhuang's back, clenched his fists above his head, and bowed deeply.

Hearing a bang behind him, Shi Zhuang's footsteps paused slightly, but he didn't look back and went straight out.

Jicheng was broken, announcing the complete fall of Youzhou.

At the beginning of February, Zhu Hancheng's troops, who led the main force to break through to Guancheng from Jicheng, were surrounded by Wang Sili, Shi Zhuang, Cao Xin and other troops, Zhu Hancheng had no way out, the army was exhausted, and the whole army was scattered, so he could only surrender to Cao Xin.

More than 20,000 defeated troops were captured.

At the end of February, Shi Zhuang led his troops to join Zhang Jia and forced Yanzhou, which surrendered.

In early March, Danzhou surrendered to Wuwei.

At this point, under the jurisdiction of Lu Long, Yanzhou, Danzhou, Youzhou, Mozhou, plus the previous Yingzhou, all fell into the hands of Wuwei, the land of Lulong's essence, the place where people gathered, and was all controlled by Wuwei.

Zhang Zhongwu defended Pingzhou with Deng Jingshan, while he led the main force to escape into Yingzhou. Yingzhou, Liaozhou and other northeastern places, although the territory is vast, but at this time, for the Tang Empire, it is basically a bitter cold land, led by the Khitan people all kinds of miscellaneous Hu entrenched in the middle, Zhang Zhongwu wants to take root here, he wants to sweep these forces again.

Originally, it was naturally impossible for Zhang Zhongwu to put these miscellaneous beards in his eyes, and these miscellaneous beards were also afraid of him like a tiger in the past, but time has passed, and now Zhang Zhongwu's strength is far less than before, and these forces naturally have many other ideas, and it is no longer Zhang Zhongwu's words, and these people will bow their heads to their ears.

More importantly, although Wu Wei did not launch a large army to continue to attack Pingzhou, small actions continued, and a large number of people infiltrated these places where the miscellaneous people were entrenched, providing them with funds and armaments, and encouraging them to raise troops against Zhang Zhongwu. And Yeluqi's Siwandan tribe played a huge role in it, and groups of Siwandan tribesmen who were eager to make contributions packed up and sneaked into Pingzhou, Liaozhou and other places.

At the beginning of March, spring ploughing began.

At the same time, all localities began to measure the land and count the household registration, and these soldiers who returned to their hometowns will find that there has been a lot of land in their homes, and under the organization of the local officials and the Yixing Society, these people who have just laid down their arms have picked up the hoe and become an ordinary member of the spring ploughing.

The captured officers of Lu Long naturally did not have such good treatment, and they were basically sent to Texas and became a member of the coolie army that built the new city of Texas.

Aside from the great achievements made by Wu Wei's original subordinates, Zhang Jia was the one who benefited the most. Following Shi Zhuang's army to land in Yanzhou and Danzhou, under the deliberate support of Li Ze, his power began to grow sharply, with Ulzhou as its governance center, Zhang Jia completely controlled Ulzhou Yunzhou, and a part of his military strength even swaggered into Shuozhou.

Holding Li Ze's military order to manage most of the northland marching army, Zhang Jia's department felt that he wanted to take back Shuozhou in the name of righteousness, which made Han Qi and Li Cunzhong as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly. But now, they can't say anything more on the surface, after all, relative to them, Zhang Jiake is one of the heroes of the defeat of Zhang Zhongwu, although it is just a role of beating the side drum and waving the flag, but the problem is that Han Qi and Li Cunzhong didn't even do it here.

Under the situation of Wuwei's great victory, the two of them could only swallow their anger, and at this moment, to challenge Wuwei Li Ze's authority, in terms of strength, they were completely unpleasant, and morally speaking, no one would sympathize with them.

Han Qi had to withdraw from Shuozhou.

Zhang Jia's subordinates immediately occupied Shuozhou completely, forming a de facto pressure on Hedong.

Zhang Jiazhi was complacent, of course, he would not forget who he relied on today, so after the war ended, he sent his eldest son to Li Ze's side as soon as possible, and became a member of Li Ze's personal guard. In fact, it is a proton in disguise.

Although it has not completely destroyed Lulong, but Wuwei's great momentum, the northwest direction of the various festivals and towns are also scared enough, in Jicheng, after the battle of Guancheng is completely over, Yiwu Jiedu envoys, Fengzhou defense envoys have sent envoys to Wuyi to congratulate. While Hedong sent envoys to congratulate, he also began to step up his collusion with Xia Sui, Shuofang and other envoys.

The current situation in the north is very clear, Lu Long is defeated, Zhang Zhongwu can only curl up in Yingzhou to lick his wounds, and a super festival town that is larger and more prominent than Lu Long's territory has appeared, which is a great threat to them.