Chapter VII: The Duke of Loyalty

The Daluo Kingdom and the Mahai Kingdom have benefited, so they naturally don't care whether the Cologne Kingdom suffers a loss, as long as it doesn't hurt their interests, as long as it doesn't violate the original alliance of the three kingdoms, then everything has nothing to do with them.

Because without the support of the two kingdoms of Da Luo and Mahai, under Zhou Yunfeng's strong attitude, the Cologne Kingdom could only choose to give in in the end, although the envoy of the Cologne Kingdom brought back the Zhendong King of the Cologne Kingdom, Thunder Cohen, but lost six county towns.

After some deliberation, Zhou Yunfeng and the two kingdoms of Da Luo and Ma Hai agreed that the cities that needed to be handed over would be completed within a month.

And the Kingdom of Cologne, which is really closely related to this incident, is like a spectator at this time, abandoned.

Although Zhou Yunfeng was the commander of the crusading army, and these cities were also captured by the Fengyun Army led by him, he did not have the right to dispose of these cities.

When he had just captured Bibo City, Zhou Yunfeng presented a battle report to the empire, and also explained his views in the battle report, asking the empire to send ministers to deal with it.

Although Zhou Yunfeng's handling method would make the Tianyun Empire lose two cities, this emperor Li Can did not treat this as a loss at all.

At the beginning, just a few days after the crusade army set off, the Underworld Sect was destroyed, and the high-level leaders of the Tianyun Empire all thought that the Tianyun Empire could only get the cities of the two kingdoms of Dayan and Sawa at most, and as for the Styx Kingdom, it would inevitably be divided by the three kingdoms of Da Luo and others when the Tianyun Empire attacked the two kingdoms of Dayan and Sawyer.

As long as the Styx Kingdom is occupied by the three kingdoms of Daluo, even if the Tianyun Empire is unwilling, it can only accept this fact.

The Tianyun Empire has been fighting for years and years, and it is not suitable to start a war with the powerful countries again, and once the war starts, it will still be one against three, which is not in the interests of the Tianyun Empire.

When they sighed and were disappointed, Zhou Yunfeng brought them a surprise, Zhou Yunfeng used a counterintuitive offensive method, and finally captured nearly forty county towns in the Styx Kingdom, almost a half province of land.

These more than thirty county cities are already an unexpected harvest for the Tianyun Empire, and now Zhou Yunfeng has also seized the opportunity to capture six county cities again, including Holy River City, the royal capital of the Styx Kingdom.

Although exchanging five cities for three cities will cause the Tianyun Empire to lose two cities, it has pulled out the nail of the Mahai Kingdom, which is beneficial to the Tianyun Empire.

And if the Tianyun Empire grasps the five cities of Yongliu and persists, it will inevitably cause the dissatisfaction of the three major kingdoms, and the borders of the Tianyun Empire will not be peaceful from now on.

Therefore, for Zhou Yunfeng's suggestion, the top level of the empire strongly agreed, and in the end, because the road was too far, the envoys were exempted, and Zhou Yunfeng was directly given full authority to deal with it, because Emperor Li Can believed that with Zhou Yunfeng's character, the Tianyun Empire would not suffer.

Zhou Yunfeng did not disappoint Li Can, and divided the five cities of Yongliu to the two kingdoms of Da Luo and Ma Hai, which not only gave them a good impression of the Tianyun Empire, but also provoked the relationship between the three kingdoms.

Although the five cities of Yongliu were captured by the Tianyun Empire, but in the end, the two kingdoms of Da Luo and Ma Hai each had one more city, and it was impossible to say that the Kingdom of Cologne did not hold a grudge against them.

Zhou Yunfeng's move undoubtedly provoked the relationship between the three kingdoms, but because of the temptation of interests, the two kingdoms of Da Luo and Ma Hai also accepted it happily.

The five cities of Yongliu are sandwiched between the two kingdoms of Da Luo and Mahai, and now these five county cities are divided by the two kingdoms, which means that the eastern section of the Cologne Kingdom will be completely surrounded by the two kingdoms of Da Luo and Mahai, and the Tianyun Empire does not have to directly face the Cologne Empire, which inadvertently reduces a neighbor for the Tianyun Empire, and it is also a neighbor with a great enemy.

Because of Thunder Cohen's attack, the Tianyun Empire completely owns the territory east of the Styx, and with the Styx River as a barrier, the border defense of the Tianyun Empire will be extremely strong.

In addition, it also provoked the relationship between the three kingdoms, and also reduced a neighbor with a great enemy, which was the benefit that Zhou Yunfeng earned for the Tianyun Empire this time.

After the talks, both the Storm Legion and the army of the Mahai Kingdom, which had occupied the three cities east of the Stygian River, began to prepare for the withdrawal.

Between countries, only interests are discussed, not character, so the withdrawal of troops from the Tianyun Empire and the Mahai Kingdom is divided into three steps.

Within ten days after the meeting, the Fengyun Legion withdrew from Bibo City, and at the same time the Mahai Kingdom also withdrew from one city, and within twenty days, the Fengyun Legion withdrew from two cities, and the Mahai Kingdom withdrew from another city at the same time, and within a month, the Fengyun Legion withdrew from the last two cities and retreated to the east bank of the Styx, and all the legions of the Mahai Kingdom had to retreat to the west bank.

A month later, Zhou Yunfeng led the Fengyun Legion to retreat to the Holy River City, and the troops of the Mahai Kingdom also retreated to the west of the Styx River, and at this time, the war in the Great Yan Kingdom was basically over, and some of the remaining remnants of the enemy were no longer to worry about.

At this point, the battle of the three major legions of the Tianyun Empire, the White Tiger, and the Vermilion Bird to conquer the Netherworld Sect was basically over, and the territories of more than seven provinces of the three kingdoms of Dayan, Soya, and Styx were all included in the territory of the Tianyun Empire, and the Tianyun Empire added nearly one-third of the territory on the basis of unification.

This is an infinitely glorious thing for the Tianyun Empire, and Emperor Li Can will also become the only emperor of the Tianyun Empire to exist with the founding emperor Li Tianyun, the undoubted lord of Zhongxing, not only unifying the separated Tianyun Empire, but also increasing the territory of the Tianyun Empire by nearly one-third, what a feat!

After the end of the war, the next thing is naturally to reward the meritorious ministers, although the credit for the separation of the separated Tianyun Empire is great, but compared to expanding the territory of the Tianyun Empire, it is somewhat insufficient.

And as a credit to the commander of the crusade army, that is, not to mention.

A month after the end of the war, the empire's reward for meritorious officials finally came out, the commanders of the White Tiger Legion and the Vermilion Bird Legion were originally second-class dukes, and now they went one step further and were named first-class dukes, and Zhou Yunfeng, as the commander, was promoted from the original second-class duke to the loyal and brave duke.

This is the Tianyun Empire has been established for hundreds of years, except for the time of the founding of the country, the first loyal and brave duke that appeared, it can be said that it is extremely glorious, and it has reached the peak of the title.

The titles of Zhou Yunlong and others have also been improved to varying degrees, several of them have reached the rank of marquis, and even Zhou Yuntian has also obtained the title of a viscount.

In the second month after the reward was issued, the Empire's orders to the three major legions were also handed down to the three major legions, and the White Tiger Legion and the Vermilion Bird Legion were all transferred back to garrison the cities before the Tianyun Empire was divided, guarding the western and southern parts of the Tianyun Empire respectively.

And the arrangement of the Fengyun Legion was also as Zhou Yunfeng expected, the Holy River City was renamed Fengyun City, and the Fengyun Legion was stationed in Fengyun City to guard the seven newly acquired provinces of the Tianyun Empire.

Because the appearance of the loyal and brave duke in the empire is a major event, Zhou Yunfeng must personally go to Tianyun City to accept the reward, and at the same time, the captains of the Vermilion Bird Legion and the White Tiger Legion were transferred back, but because there are many things to deal with, the empire gave half a year, and after half a year, the three of them must return to the court to accept the canonization.

When the Vermilion Bird Legion and the White Tiger Legion withdrew to the station, the Fengyun Legion began to accept the task of cleaning up the remnants of various places, and after more than a month of fighting, the remnants of the Seven Great Provinces were basically wiped out, as for the remaining scattered stragglers, it would be impossible to clear them for a while and a half, and they needed to be cleaned up slowly in the future.

After dealing with these things, Zhou Yunfeng planned to leave Fengyun City temporarily, and the first destination Zhou Yunfeng set was not Tianyun City, nor was it Yunlan City, where Zhou's family was located, but Tianluomen.

After nearly ten days of traveling, Zhou Yunfeng finally reached Tianluomen, but Zhou Yunfeng was disappointed, Huang Xia was not in the sect, but went out to practice three months ago, as for when to come back, even Huang Xia's master Li Qiushui didn't know what to do.

For such a result, although Zhou Yunfeng was very disappointed, but time was pressing, and he couldn't wait for Huang Xia to come back in Tianluomen, so he could only leave with a disappointed mood.

Because Zhou Yunfeng is now riding the wildebeest king, the speed is very fast, but even so, when Zhou Yunfeng arrived in Yunlan City, it was already two months later, and after returning home, Zhou Yunfeng unexpectedly found that his uncle Zhou Xiaojun was actually at home.

The news that Zhou Yunfeng was named Duke Zhongyong had already spread throughout the Tianyun Empire, and the Zhou family naturally knew the Tao, and on the night of Zhou Yunfeng's return, the Zhou family was full of joy, and the celebration banquet and the reception banquet in the family did not end until late at night.

What made the Zhou family fly in the ointment was that the four brothers of Zhou Yunfeng who were fighting on the front line only came back Zhou Yunfeng.

Three days later, "Feng'er, what do you think of the current situation of the Zhou family?" Zhou Zhantian looked at Zhou Yunfeng and asked.

There were six people sitting in the hall, Zhou Changshou and Zhou Zhantian sat on the main seat above, and Zhou Xiaojun, Zhou Xiaozhan, Zhou Xiaochong and Zhou Yunfeng sat on both sides.

Although Zhou Yunfeng is a junior in the family, only twenty-two or three years old, no one in the Zhou family will treat him as a child.

"The Zhou family has three princes, and the glory can be said to be incomparable, but it is suspected of being a high meritorious, if it is not solved as soon as possible, it will inevitably lead to endless troubles!" Zhou Yunfeng groaned for a while, and said with a straight face.

"Oh, how did you see that?" Zhou Zhantian asked with a glint in his eyes.

"The commander of the Underworld Sect is me and not the uncle, so it can be seen that the empire has begun to block the Zhou family's contributions, and the empire doesn't want the Zhou family to get double credit!" Zhou Yunfeng said without thinking.

"That's right! At a young age, he has seen so thoroughly, not only is he extremely talented in cultivation, he also has a set of leading troops to fight, and more importantly, he can also see the situation so clearly. Zhou Changshou said with a smile.

"Feng'er is right. Now my Zhou family has three princes, and on the surface it is infinitely beautiful, but secretly it is killing everywhere, and if there is a slight mistake, the entire Zhou family is in danger of destruction!" Zhou Zhantian said in a deep voice.

Zhou Zhantian's words made the faces of the four people except Zhou Changshou change, although they all knew that the situation of the Zhou family was not as optimistic as it appeared to be, but they did not expect that there would be a danger of destruction.

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