Lin Feng called Zhang Bin, Cheng Yuehai and Yang Di and gave them two tasks: to hunt down all the stubborn Panlong soldiers along the way, and at the same time recruit all the Tanzhou soldiers and Langzhou tribal soldiers who were willing to surrender in the name of the Tang Dynasty.

After the last, Lin Feng attached to the ears of the three of them, and whispered two words, the three of them nodded, and immediately led half of the cavalry, escorts and Wuchang elites, and set off in a hurry.

Lin Feng left thirty guards to continue to protect the fort, bid farewell to Huang Zongwang and the rich man, and led the remaining special soldiers and soldiers straight to Xuanwu Gate.

At this time, it was already the early morning of October 7. The wide Antai Avenue was deserted, and twenty-three horses galloped unhurriedly at the front of the procession, sending the crisp sound of hooves far away.

Lin Feng rode on a horse, looking at the occasional flames rising from buildings in the night sky, and then at the slightly white night sky in the east, most of the worries that had been accumulated in his heart were gone. At this time, the matter of his westward journey to Chu can be regarded as a faint dawn, and it depends on what kind of concessions he can squeeze from Ma Xicao in a while.

A group of people quickly rushed to the Xuanwu Gate.

Torches and fires were everywhere under the Xuanwu Gate and at the head of the city, and groups of tribal soldiers were transporting arrows to the city walls. Suddenly hearing the sound of horses' hooves from behind, all the tribal soldiers were startled and immediately shrank to the vicinity of the city gate.

Lin Feng stepped out of the queue and shouted loudly: "I am Lin Feng, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, who is in charge of this?" ”

A Tujia leader walked out and bent down to salute.

Lin Feng didn't talk nonsense, and asked loudly: "Do you know why you have to guard the city gate?" Did the Langzhou soldiers outside the city threaten to attack the city? ”

The leader looked up with a puzzled look on his face, and said hesitantly: "The villain is just on the order of General Pan of my family to guard the city gate and not allow anyone to enter or leave, I don't know why." ”

Lin Feng stared at the leader for a while, and saw that his eyes were not blinking, and his words were calm, which really didn't seem like he was lying, so he jumped off the horse, approached him, and said softly:

"You've all been deceived by Panlong! He didn't know why, he secretly wanted to kill me, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, from the King of Chu. Now you can understand that some people outside the city are suddenly attacking the city, right?! That's because, the State of Chu can't afford to commit the crime of murdering the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, and the King of Chu can't afford it, can you afford it alone? ”

"I can't afford it!" The little man was startled and replied subconsciously, but he reacted again and asked rhetorically, "Lord Lin, are you telling the truth?" ”

Lin Feng smiled, pointed to the blood all over his body, and then pointed to the silent city behind him, and asked rhetorically, "If it weren't for this, would I have personally taken action?" If not, do you think the city would be so quiet now? "Lin Feng is telling the truth, if it weren't for the incident of besieging him, this Tanzhou City would be a city of doom now!

The leader was speechless, not knowing what to do.

Lin Feng pointed to the men and horses behind him again, and said with a smile: "Now, all my subordinates are here, plus more than two hundred elite soldiers, if I want to rush out of the city, and the army outside the city starts to attack the city at the same time, can you people stop it?" ”

The leader shook his head subconsciously. Just kidding, the tribal soldiers only allocated a total of 1,000 people to guard such a large city, and the Xuanwu Gate was too important, so it specially arranged nearly 200 people, besides, now who doesn't know that Lin Feng's men have raced against tigers and wolves!

Lin Feng patted the leader on the shoulder and said in a deep voice: "I think that you have been deceived, and give you and these clan brothers a chance to survive!" Immediately lay down his weapons, open the city gates, and then go to the edge of the Xiangjiang River to wait for disposal. In this way, we will not have to meet each other with swords. ”

The leader looked at Wei San, Zhou Qizhi and the others who had already forced him in front of him, his face was blue and red for a while, and he stomped his feet at the end of the year, turned around and ordered the soldiers to lay down their weapons and open the city gate.

As soon as Lin Feng got on his horse, he rode out of the city leisurely as soon as the city gate opened. However, the scene outside the city gate immediately made him feel angry and ridiculous.

The Langzhou infantry outside the city gate was also quite numerous, it seemed that there were more than a thousand, but some soldiers were standing, but their shields and weapons were all thrown on the ground; Some of the soldiers sat on the ground, leaning on each other, and they were all asleep!

Hearing a noise at the city gate, several soldiers nearby opened their sleepy eyes and saw a group of men and horses coming out of the city, and couldn't help but scream.

Hearing the movement in front, the commander of the Langzhou infantry army ran over from the rear on horseback. When he saw Lin Feng and the others, he immediately rolled the saddle and fell off the horse, congratulating Lin Feng with surprise on his safe return.

Lin Feng's face was frosty, he looked at the empty ground around him, and sneered: "Commander Zhou, are you going to rely on these soldiers who are already asleep, and you don't have a siege ladder with you, and you are going to kill into Tanzhou City to save us?" ”

Zhou Xingfeng's face immediately turned red, and he muttered: "Please forgive Special Envoy Lin, the soldiers were drinking and celebrating last night, and it is not easy to gather them together." ”

Lin Feng shook his head, didn't speak again, and directly led the team towards the Ma Xixu command boat that was parked in the middle of the moat. At this time, all the Langzhou infantry came to their senses, got out of the way of the middle road, and watched with shock as this group of people covered in blood walked in front of them.

After layers of reports, Lin Feng took Li Congqian, Chen Fei, several children and more than a dozen special soldiers to the command ship.

As soon as he stepped on the deck, Ma Xicao pounced, gently grabbed Li Congqian with one hand, caressed up and down with the other, his eyes kept looking back and forth, left and right, and asked with a sneer: "His Royal Highness the Ninth is frightened, have you been injured?" ”

Li Congqian gently broke away from him, straightened the blood-stained military uniform on his body, and said in a deep voice: "Thank you King Chu for your care and rescue, Congqian is fortunate not to be injured." ”

No matter how thick-skinned Ma Xicao was, he couldn't help but turn red when he heard this. He hurriedly turned to Lin Feng and asked if he had been injured.

Lin Feng looked at some of the eye droppings that had accumulated in the corners of Ma Xicao's eyes, and then looked at the bear skin draped on his body that was crooked, of course, he could guess that this Ma Xicao was only afraid that he had just been woken up from sleep by his subordinates.

Lin Feng didn't break this point, nor did he answer Ma Xixu's words, but just said sharply: "Tonight, our Highness the Ninth of the Great Tang Dynasty was actually besieged by his own people, which is really shocking and even more worried!" In order to protect the safety of His Royal Highness the Nine, Lin had to ask the King of Chu for a small warrant! ”

Ma Xicao immediately smiled, and nodded again and again: "It's easy to say, please ask Special Envoy Lin to order!" ”

"Then please ask the King of Chu to write a warrant to invite the Tang army to enter immediately!" Lin Feng said word by word.

"Ah, now that the situation in Chu is stable, there is no need to bother the Tang army, right?" A feminine voice sounded from behind him, it was none other than Xie Yanhao, who was inseparable from Ma Xixu.

Lin Feng didn't even glance at Xie Yanhao with his eyelids, he just yelled: "Wei San! ”

Wei San immediately took two steps forward, bypassed Lin Feng, and kicked Xie Yanhao's thigh, kicking him out of the road and falling to the ground.

Lin Feng was furious, pointed at the bloody clothes on Li Congqian's body, tore off his blood-stained military uniform, and threw it at Xie Yanhao, who fell to the ground and moaned loudly, and roared angrily: "Stabilize your fucking eggs!" If it is stable, there will be 5,000 Langzhou tribal soldiers besieging us? My Highness the Ninth Tang Dynasty will be in a desperate situation?! ”

Lin Feng turned to Ma Xicao, who was looking at Xie Yanhao in distress, and continued to roar: "Ma Xicao, we don't talk darkly!" Are you ready to cross the river and tear down the bridge, unload the mill and kill the donkey after using our Datang?! ”

Ma Xicao woke up in shock, shook his head again and again, waved his hands wildly, and hurriedly defended: "Ma has no such intention!" No such thing! ”

"Then why did the Langzhou soldiers all withdraw from Tanzhou City, and only the soldiers of the Langzhou tribe remained? Why do they want to blockade the entire Tanzhou City and besiege our Nine Highnesses and the Tang Dynasty soldiers with all their might? I have already sent people out of the city to ask for help, why are your rescue soldiers delayed? Just outside the Xuanwu Gate, I saw with my own eyes that the 1,000 soldiers besieging the city were sitting there sleeping without any siege equipment, don't you tell me this is also called rescue? Lin Feng roared again and again, holding the handle of the knife in his right hand, with a posture of drawing the knife against each other without saying a word.

Ma Xicao was speechless, how could he explain this?

Lin Feng sneered: "In a word, our Ninth Highness, me, and every Tang Dynasty soldier are so disappointed in your Chu Kingdom, it's really hard to believe you!" If the king of Chu does not write this warrant, I will leave the state of Chu with all my soldiers now. However, when my Tang army comes in again to take revenge, I won't ask the King of Chu for any more orders! ”

If you don't invite our army in now, we'll come in and take revenge ourselves!" Lin Feng's naked threat suddenly woke Ma Xixu awake, he looked at the silence left and right, and quickly nodded and replied: "Special Envoy Lin don't be angry, I'll write it now." ”

At this time, Ma Bin, who had served as Ma Xixu's envoy to the Southern Tang Dynasty, walked up, first bowed deeply to Lin Feng, and then said with a very polite smile: "Special Envoy Lin, please dissipate your anger." There must be a misunderstanding in this, and we, the King of Chu, will definitely find out the facts and then explain to His Royal Highness the Ninth and Special Envoy Lin. Of course, we warmly welcome the entry of the Tang army into the Chu realm, but could you please reveal the number of Tang troops who are going to be invited into Chu? ”

This is the most important question! The eyes of everyone on the ship were fixed on Lin Feng!

Lin Feng glanced at Ma Bin and said with a grin: "Don't worry, we are just worried about the safety of His Highness the Nine, and the number of our army entering Chu will never exceed the number of the existing infantry army in Langzhou." ”

Ma Xicao was stunned for a moment, and calculated in his heart, now even if the Langzhou infantry army is added to all the tribal armies, it will not exceed 8,000 people, and there are more than 10,000 sailors under his command, which can definitely control the situation, and the number that Lin Feng said is not outrageous.

After the slap, it's time to give dates! Lin Feng slowed down his tone, left the handle of the knife with his right hand, and said loudly: "Since I, the Tang Dynasty, have promised you to be a vassal of the Chu State, then I will not come here to visit and sightsee when I join the Chu Tang Army!" We can guarantee that the entire southern part of Chu will be successfully brought under the rule of the King of Chu, and at the same time, we can help solve the problem of scabies caused by the invasion of the Southern Han Dynasty! "Now, there is still a part of the army of the Southern Han Dynasty stationed on the Chu-Han border, thinking about entering the country all day long!

Hearing this, Ma Xixu was relieved, and went back to the cabin to write the order in a hurry.

After a while, Lin Feng got the warrant he wanted most, he took a cursory look, and immediately handed over the warrant to Wei San, Zhou Qizhi, Yan Ruoli and others, and asked the eight of them to set off overnight and rush to Wuchang to bring reinforcements. Of course, while shouting orders in front of everyone, Lin Feng used his body to block the sight of others, and secretly made a "twenty thousand" mouth shape to Wei San.

Wei San nodded slightly, and immediately led people to jump off the boat and set off.