On the evening of December 19, Lin Feng, who had successfully achieved the purpose of his trip, led 300 special soldiers and 600 Tujia warriors out of Baihu Peak and hurried north to Chenzhou City.

That night, Lin Feng saw Zhou Xingfeng and learned that Liu Yan had ordered Chenzhou to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, he himself had committed suicide by cutting his throat, the rest of the family was hidden, the Liu family's soldiers were scattered, and the elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who had just arrived had successfully taken over the entire Chenzhou City.

Lin Feng knew that this was Zhou Xingfeng deliberately playing a sidekick in order to protect Liu Yan's family, and ignored it, and immediately left three thousand mixed soldiers from the Tang Dynasty and Tanzhou, led by the commander Wu Hong, temporarily stationed in Chenzhou;

After resting for the night in the military camp outside Chenzhou City, Lin Feng led the remaining 2,900 soldiers to hurry north and rush to Langzhou.

At noon on December 20, Lin Feng rushed to the city of Langzhou, where the city gate was open, and joined the 5,000 elite soldiers led by Zhao Yu, the deputy general of the Wuchang Army.

Without waiting for Lin Feng to enter the city, Ma Guanghui and Ma Bin led the remaining members of the Ma family to greet them in cloth clothes, knelt on the ground, and expressed their willingness to surrender to the Tang Dynasty and move their family to Jinling.

Of course, Lin Feng was very satisfied with such a posture, stepped forward to help Ma Guanghui, and said something about expressing respect and heartfelt condolences to Ma Xixu, and hoping that the court and ministers would achieve common prosperity and win-win results in the future, and suggested that Ma Guanghui immediately transfer to Zhao Yume all the defenses and all the classic documents of Langzhou, pack up his bags, and rush to Jinling City before the fourth day of the first lunar month.

Ma Guanghui hurriedly agreed.

After Lin Feng explained Zhao Yu to me a few precautions, he immediately led his troops to Yuezhou by boat at the eastern end of Dongting Lake.

Previously, when Ma Xicao attacked Tanzhou, Wang Zan of Yuezhou Thorn Shi made a "strong order" and refused to surrender, and Ma Xicao had to leave. Since then, there has been chaos in the city of Tanzhou, and Yuezhou has not expressed its attitude.

When he arrived at the city of Yuezhou, Lin Feng did not lead his troops to attack the city, but just found a piece of cloth and wrote a few words by hand, tied it to the arrow shaft, and let Qin Hansheng shoot into the city. Wang Zan took the arrow from the guard's hand, unfolded the cloth and looked at it, there were only four words on it: "For an official?" For the people? ”

Yuezhou is not an impermeable wall, Guizhou "defeated" and regained victory, Tanzhou repeated chaos, and the news that Datang was rent-free for three years has already made the city uproar and panic. In this context, Lin Feng's four words are a heart-wrenching question: You Wang Zan has never expressed his stance and does not choose a side, is it reluctant to give up your official position, or is it really for the people of the city?

Wang Zan sighed, shed tears, and went straight back to the Assassin's Mansion, took off his official uniform, hung the official seal on the beam of the mansion, and drifted away with his family, nowhere to be found. Subsequently, the Yuezhou city guard consciously opened the city gate and welcomed Lin Feng into the city.

In the past, Ma Xixu led the army to attack Yuezhou City, which had not been under for five days, and was easily taken by Lin Feng in four words.

After that, Lin Feng left 1,000 Tang soldiers to guard Yuezhou City, and escorted 2,000 Yuezhou soldiers south to Tanzhou City.

On the evening of December 22, Lin Feng led his soldiers and horses back to Tanzhou City.

Li Congqian, Liu Renzhen, Tuoba Heng and other ministers went out of the city for ten miles to greet them. The two "master and apprentice", who had not seen each other for many days, met and hugged each other excitedly. However, Lin Feng reacted immediately, gently pushed Li Congqian away, knelt down on one knee, and paid his respects to His Royal Highness the Great Tang Jiu.

Li Congqian pulled Lin Feng up, kept talking about the thrilling and exciting process after breaking up with Lin Feng in Guizhou, and kept asking about the details of Lin Feng's many actions after separation.

Lin Feng smiled and listened to Li Congqian's incoherent words, looking at his excited expression and his lips that looked a little blackened because of his beard, he couldn't help but sigh, after the trip to the Chu State, this Ninth Highness has matured quickly after the continuous catalysis of war and politics!

Back in the city of Chu Wangfu, Lin Feng, who was about to participate in Li Congqian's banquet, actually saw Lin Renzhao and Xi Mucheng, who had just returned to the city, and learned that Ning Yuan Jiedu made Ma Xijun surrender immediately after receiving the edict of the Tang Dynasty.

As soon as the banquet started, there was good news that the two assassination teams sent by Lin Feng had returned, and the heads of Pu Guishan and Lei Shanming had also been successfully brought back, and the elated Lin Feng immediately ordered to add more tables and invite these brothers who had worked hard all the way to the table, and the atmosphere in the banquet was even more lively.

The banquet lasted for nearly midnight before it was gone. Lin Feng, Li Congqian, Liu Renzhen, and Tuoba Heng walked into a secret room and negotiated many major current events.

On December 23, coinciding with the New Year, Lin Feng organized a large-scale all-army commendation in front of the palace of the king of Chu to pay tribute to the heroes who died in the Battle of Guizhou, and to commend the officers and soldiers who fought on the spot.

The process of this commendation meeting is basically very similar to the memorial of the Guizhou War, Lin Feng stood on the wall of the house, read out aloud the number of soldiers who sacrificed, and posthumously named them as the martyrs of the Guizhou War, announced the compassionate policy on the spot, and issued pensions to the representatives of the sacrificed soldiers on the spot.

Different from the conference in the Guiguan area, most of the local soldiers who died in the Guizhou War were the main body of the original Chu army, and there were really many people from inside and outside Tanzhou, and many family members cried in the square, and the atmosphere was solemn, heavy and depressing.

In this sad atmosphere, Lin Feng announced that the Huichun Garden, which was originally a royal garden, will be open to all the public from now on, and Datang will fund and start building a monument in the garden to remember all the heroes and talents who sacrificed their lives for the country, the nation, and the people's livelihood, and made outstanding contributions!

"Let the heroes be immortal, may the heroic souls rest in peace!" Lin Feng shouted, calling on everyone on the scene to mourn for these heroes for half an hour.

"Heroes are gone, but the future is in our own hands! Today is the New Year, on behalf of the Tang Dynasty Shengshang and His Royal Highness the Nineth, I wish the people inside and outside the city of Tanzhou, the north, the south, the east and west of the Chu State a happy New Year in advance! This year's Chinese New Year, Datang will distribute 50 New Year's gifts to every household in Tanzhou City! Lin Feng still threw out the news that made the people at the scene excited. In fact, all this money was just looted by Ma Xicao and Ma Xichong from Tanzhou, and Lin Feng just took some of it out to give back to the original "bitter master"!

However, this is such a political practice of "taking 100 and returning 1", and the soldiers and people of Tanzhou immediately shouted excitedly. Compared with the brutality and wanton behavior of the Ma brothers, the Tang Dynasty reduced rents, made money, respected the soldiers, and respected the people...... What it brings is out-and-out positive energy!

After the ceremony, the sound of firecrackers and firecrackers in Tanzhou City was everywhere, and the atmosphere of celebration became strong all of a sudden. Many people took to the streets in excitement to collectively celebrate the arrival of the New Year and wish Tanzhou City a new life.

As for the Ma family and the Chu State, they completely disappeared with the sound of firecrackers, except for some depressed old and young people of the former Chu, not many people were willing to talk about it anymore.

After arranging all the major events, Lin Feng could no longer suppress his thoughts about Emperor Zhou E, Xiao Fei'er, Duan Feihong, Yaya, Feifei, Li Jing, Li Jingsui, Li Yu, and Datang Academy of Sciences and supermarkets, Jinling City, thousands of miles away, suddenly became more important than anything else, and it attracted his heart like a magnet.

Lin Feng, who was like an arrow, began to quickly deploy the things at hand: he took the initiative to meet with Huang Zongwang and other wealthy businessmen of Chu State, and discussed and agreed on the next business development and cooperation plan between Chu and Tang; met with Zhang Longxing and promoted him to the deputy commander of Tanzhou to lead the training of recruits; Cheng Yuehai was arranged to serve as a temporary instructor, responsible for the training of all new special fighters, elite troops, and crime battalions, and trained in a closed manner at the military camp at the east gate of Tanzhou City, and rushed to Jinling to join him two months later......

Busy until the evening, Lin Feng rushed to the palace of the king of Chu, tried every means to comfort, and finally appeased Li Congqian, who wanted to go back with him, and sincerely asked Liu Renzhen to preside over the reorganization of the existing army and arrange the defense of all parts of the Chu State.

Early in the morning of 24 December, Lin Feng led 30 special soldiers from the original squad and 50 carefully selected masters to board his own two boats, one large and one small, hoisted their sails, and went north along the Xiangshui River to the river, and then went all the way east along the river, and flew to Jinling, which was thousands of miles away.

On the city wall of Tanzhou, Li Congqian ran to the corner tower in the northwest corner early with several elite guards of the Wuchang Army, and saw Lin Feng leave with pitiful tears. Until the huge warship completely disappeared from sight, Li Congqian still held on to the railing with both hands and refused to leave.