With a bang, a soldier broke through the door and fell heavily to the table. Although he was still holding a knife in his hand, he could no longer stand up. After struggling for a few times, he finally let out a long breath and no longer had any movement.

Shi Zhuang, who was holding a spear, appeared at the gate, and almost all the soldiers outside who did not want to leave were killed under his spear.

In the lobby, Fei Zhong sat at the table, drinking wine gulply, with a table full of dishes in front of him, but the dishes were gone at all.

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

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

Shi Zhuang looked at Fei Zhong and laughed and said, "General Fei, your nose is bleeding. How long have you been drinking?" He leaned over, picked up the wine pot from opposite Fei Zhong, opened the lid, smelled it, and shook his head: "Why? With your status, you don't have to die. If you are willing to cooperate with us, even wealth and honor are at your fingertips."

Fei Zhong smiled, wiped his nose with his hand, lowered his head and looked at the blood on the back of his hand, and wiped it casually on his clothes, saying, "General Shi is humiliating me. Fei still has such integrity. A loyal minister does not serve the second master. Since he cannot help the lord accomplish his work, he should be the lord's death day."

"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 now, Zhang Shuai is afraid that there are more advantages than Li Ze."

Shi Zhuang is not a nonsense person. He naturally understood what Fei Zhong said. Zhang Zhongwu naturally made contributions to the entire Tang Empire. If Zhang Zhongwu had not defeated the rising Khitan Empire in more than ten years and fought the other party back to the tribal slave era, perhaps the north of the Tang Dynasty would have become the other party’s pasture!

No matter what Zhang Zhongwu's final result is, he will naturally have a positioning in history, and his merits and demerits will be judged by future generations. As Zhang Zhongwu's most important general, Fei Zhong may also leave a record in history.

As for Li Ze, who is indeed not as good as Zhang Zhongwu in terms of his contribution to this country so far.

"Even if you don't want to surrender to us, you can still live. I think our Jieshuai 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 live than to die. What medicine did you put in the wine? Tell me, maybe you can save your life?"

Fei Zhong smiled and wiped his nosebleed again, and even deliberately spread it in front of Shi Zhuang, "Not saved."

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

"I am the first aide under the position of the commander of the commander of the commander of Jie Shuai. Jie Shuai was also supported and planned by me. Unfortunately, I miscalculated Chengde's strength, which led to one mistake and one mistake." Fei Zhong was bleeding from his nose while drinking, "At present, he had to cut off his arm, give up nearly half of his territory, and retreat to a more bitter and cold place to struggle to survive. Such a big failure naturally requires someone to be responsible for it. Otherwise, what would Jie Shuai use to use to use the power of the army and to use to gather the morale of the army? There is no better candidate than me."

"For Zhang Zhongwu, you actually asked Fei to accompany him to be buried with him? Do you know that if all the blame falls on you, you Fei will never have a place to stay in Lu Long!"

"It's okay!" Fei Zhong said: "If the general can make a comeback and revitalize the mountains in the future, our Fei family will naturally be the first hero. Then the efforts at the moment are worth it. Even now, it is worth it for the younger elites of the Fei family to suffer some hardships. Except for a few of the older generation of the Fei family, the rest of the Fei family have died in Jicheng. With these people at the bottom, the younger generation will only suffer some setbacks! This will be more beneficial to their growth. It will not be a weapon without being carved. Over the years, they have been too pampered."

"I understand!" Shi Zhuang nodded. Even though it was an enemy, he could not hate enemies like Fei Zhong, and instead made people feel respectful in their hearts. Similarly, defeating such enemies also made him feel more accomplished.

"I want to tell you one more thing. Guancheng had been captured by us a few days ago. The 15,000 Lu Long soldiers stationed in Guancheng were completely destroyed. Except for the more than 3,000 captured people, everyone else died in battle. Feng Lun was also killed in battle. Therefore, Zhu Hancheng could not escape, and now he has fallen into our surroundings."

"It was to do our best to do our best and leave our destiny. It was their luck to escape, but it was their fate that could not escape." Fei Zhong took another sip of wine. At this time, his condition was already extremely strange. Blood had begun to leak out of his seven orifices, which shocked the Wuwei soldiers who came in one after another.

"After you die, I will bury you well." Shi Zhuang stood up: "Aren't you Fei's family in Jicheng ancestral tomb? I will bury you wherever you are, of course, I will also instruct you to protect it."

After saying this, Shi Zhuang stood up and walked out. Behind him, Fei Zhong stood up with the table, and clasped his fists over his head, bowed deeply toward Shi Zhuang's back.

Hearing a bang from behind, Shi Zhuang's steps paused for a moment, but he did not turn around and went straight out of the door.

Jicheng was broken, announcing the complete fall of Youzhou.

In early February, Zhu Hancheng's troops, who led the main force to break out of Guancheng from Jicheng, were surrounded by Wang Sili, Shi Zhuang, Cao Xin and other troops. Zhu Hancheng had no way out, and the military rations were all gone, and the entire army was dispersed and 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 forcing Guizhou, where Guizhou surrendered.

In early March, Tanzhou surrendered to Wuwei.

At this point, under Lu Long, Guizhou, Tanzhou, Youzhou, Mozhou, and the previous Yingzhou were all under the hands of Wuwei. The place where Lu Long's essence and the place where people gathered were all controlled by Wuwei.

Zhang Zhongwu defended Pingzhou with Deng Jingshan, while he led the main force to Yingzhou. Yingzhou, Liaozhou and other northeastern areas were vast, but at this time, it was basically a bitter and cold place for the Tang Empire. Various kinds of Huhu led by the Khitans were entrenched. If Zhang Zhongwu wanted to take root here, he would sweep these forces again.

Originally, Zhang Zhongwu naturally could not take these miscellaneous Hu seriously. In the past, these miscellaneous Hu were also afraid of him, but time had changed, and now Zhang Zhongwu's strength is far inferior to before. Naturally, these forces also had many other ideas. It was no longer just Zhang Zhongwu's words, so these people bowed their heads to the ears.

More importantly, although Wuwei did not launch a large army to continue attacking Pingzhou, small actions were constantly being made. A large number of people penetrated into these places occupied by the Huhu, providing funds, providing weapons, and encouraging them to rise up and resist Zhang Zhongwu. Yelu Qi's Siwandan tribe played a huge role in it, and a group of Siwandan tribes who were eager to make achievements packed up and sneaked into Pingzhou, Liaozhou and other places.

In early March, spring plowing began.

The Wuwei Jiedushi disbanded the captured Lulong army on the spot and allowed them to return home. At the same time, various places began to measure the land and count the household registration. As soon as these soldiers returned home, they would find that there was already a lot of land in their homes. Under the organization of local officials and Yixingshe, these people who had just put down their weapons picked up hoes and became ordinary members of the spring plowing.

The captured officers Lu Long naturally did not receive such good treatment. They were basically sent to Dezhou and became members of the coolie army to build the Dezhou New City.

Putting aside Wuwei's original subordinates made great contributions, Zhang Jia was the one who benefited the most. Following Shi Zhuang's army's continuous forced land on Guizhou and Tanzhou, with Li Ze's deliberate support, his power began to grow sharply. With Weizhou as its governance center, Zhang Jia completely controlled Yunzhou in Weizhou, and part of his military power even entered Shuozhou in a swagger.

Holding the military orders of most of the marching in the north, Zhang Jia's troops felt that they wanted to take back Shuozhou with justification, which made Han Qi and Li Cunzhong feel uncomfortable as if they were swallowing a fly. But now, they could not say anything more in public. After all, compared to them, Zhang Jia was one of the heroes who defeated Zhang Zhongwu. Although he was just a role of beating the side drum and shaking the flag, the problem was that Han Qi and Li Cunzhong did not even do it here.

Under the situation of Wuwei's victory, the two of them could only swallow their anger. At this moment, they would not be able to challenge the authority of Wuwei Li Ze at all in terms of strength. Morally, no one would sympathize with them.

Han Qi had to withdraw from Shuozhou.

Zhang Jia's troops immediately occupied Shuozhou completely, which put actual pressure on Hedong.

Zhang Jiazhi was proud. Of course, he would not forget who he could rely on today. So after the war was over, he immediately sent his eldest son to Li Ze and became a member of Li Ze's personal Wei Yi. In fact, he was just a disguised proton.

Although Lu Long has not been completely destroyed, Wuwei's great momentum has scared the towns in the northwest. After the war in Jicheng and Guancheng was completely over, the Yiwu Jiedu Guard, Fengzhou Defense Envoy and others sent envoys to Wuyi to congratulate. While Hedong sent envoys to congratulate, it also began to intensify its connections with Xia Sui, Shuofang and other Jiedu Guards.
Chapter completed!