Five miles away, Guo Song, surrounded by people, was also looking at the distant city of Shanzhou. In the past two years, the situation in Tubo and the Tang Dynasty had been calm. Many people from Longyou began to return home from Hexi. Shanzhou
The city originally had 20,000 residents, but now it has recovered to 5,000. However, most of the people in Longyou have established a stable life in Hexi and are not far away from coming back.
This is also the reason why Guo Song wants to capture Longyou. Hexi alone cannot resettle more than 600,000 refugees. Longyou must be responsible for most of the refugees. Longyou has a vast territory, fertile land, and many areas suitable for farming.
The Huanghe Valley alone can house millions of people.
As long as Tubo can be effectively prevented, Longyou will definitely become its own grain-producing area.
In fact, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Longyou had a mild and humid climate, abundant precipitation, and fertile land. It has always been a famous farming area in the Tang Dynasty. Guanlong became the Tang Dynasty. It is completely different from today's climate. It was only later that the climate changed.
Gradually it becomes less rainy and drier.
Next to him, Liang Wu couldn't help but ask: "Does your Majesty value this Zhang Feng very much?"
He had been following Guo Song for a long time, and this was the first time he saw Guo Song writing a letter to persuade the general to surrender.
Guo Song smiled faintly, "Actually, I don't think much of it. Zhang Feng and I are old acquaintances. When I came down from Kongtong Mountain and passed Xiaoguan, this Zhang Feng was the guard general of Xiaoguan. I earned a fortune from him at that time.
He even tried to persuade me to be his brigade commander, but I refused. In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, but it seems like it happened yesterday."
Speaking of this, Guo Song couldn't help but sigh lowly.
Liang Wu understood. He knew that Guo Song was a very nostalgic person. This Zhang Feng must have left a good impression on him, which is why he felt pity for him today.
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That night, Guo Song did not order an attack on the city. He was still patiently waiting for Zhang Feng's reply. Zhang Feng almost stayed up all night. This night finally made him figure it out. The title and title Guo Song promised him
Official positions were not conferred by the Southern Tang court, but were conferred by Guo Song himself. Just like the governors of Hexi and Beiting, none of them had anything to do with the court, and were all appointed by Guo Song himself.
But after thinking about this, Zhang Feng couldn't sleep even more. Of course Guo Song is now the king of the feudal town, but how far can he go as the king of the feudal town in the future? Can he surpass Zhu Si? Zhang Feng really has no confidence at all.
It was getting daylight, and the thousands of garrison troops at the head of the city had been nervous all night. The Hexi Army did not come to attack the city, so they breathed a long sigh of relief. Many soldiers were so sleepy that they sat on the ground and fell asleep.
At this moment, more than a dozen Hexi Army soldiers rushed from the easternmost north of the city. The two strong men in the lead were carrying a heavy large jar. The soldiers next to them held up giant shields to protect them. They were just a few meters away from the city wall.
After dozens of steps, he was discovered by the defenders on top of the city, who immediately sounded the alarm.
There are many ravines outside the north of the city, and the terrain is undulating, which is not suitable for siege. As a result, there are very few defenders on the north wall, only a patrol of more than a hundred people. The sound of alarm bells alerted the general in the west of the city, and he immediately sent a thousand soldiers carrying wooden logs.
Shi rushed to the north of the city.
At this time, the patrol soldiers at the top of Beicheng had already started firing arrows downwards, which was basically to no avail. The soldiers of the Hexi Army were very well protected.
The neck was also wrapped, and the lower body wore chain mail like a skirt to protect the legs.
Everyone put up wooden planks and crossed the moat, and found the crack. The crack was about half a foot wide, and the cavity inside could be clearly seen. Two strong men struggled to pry off more than a dozen pieces of the city wall, revealing a large black hole. They removed the heavy
The iron fire thunder was stuffed into the big hole and the match rope was lit.
"Run!"
More than a dozen soldiers turned around and ran away. The patrol soldiers fired dozens of arrows, but they were all blocked by the Hexi Army's protection.
One soldier turned around and shouted: "You idiots, run for your lives!"
The soldiers on the top of the city also felt something was wrong, and they left the city one after another and retreated.
More than a thousand supporting garrison troops have almost arrived, and they are still more than 300 steps away from the corner of the city.
At this moment, "Boom!" There was an earth-shattering explosion in the city wall. Countless bricks and stones rose into the sky along with thick smoke. The city wall was shaking violently, the ground was shaking, and the soldiers running on the city wall fell down in fear.
, Fortunately, the iron fire thunder exploded in the city, and the sound wave impact was not strong.
However, the North City was in disrepair for a long time and could not withstand the violent shaking, so sections of it collapsed.
Zhang Feng led a large group of soldiers to the north wall. He was immediately shocked by the scene in front of him. He saw a large hole several feet wide exploded at the junction of the east wall of the north wall, and large sections of the wall collapsed, covering a mile.
, there were many injured soldiers, and many soldiers were digging through the wall bricks to pull out the buried soldiers.
Everyone was shocked. What kind of weapon is this? Is it so powerful?
Zhang Feng let out a long sigh and said to the generals on his left and right: "Get ready to surrender in Kaicheng!"
On the last day of August, the Tang army used iron fire thunder to implement a deterrent strategy, completely destroying the last chance of the general Zhang Feng. He led an army of 10,000 people out of the city and surrendered to the Hexi Army. He also sent an order to the Longyou Army soldiers from all over the country, asking them to turn around.
Be loyal to Hexi Jiedufu.
Guo Song began to reorganize the Longyou army, and at the same time ordered the army of refugees in Longyou to start harvesting wheat. The entire army and people of Longyou were involved in the autumn wheat harvest battle.
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There is a mansion covering an area of 30 acres in the southeast corner of Fenglefang, Chang'an. It was originally the residence of former Prime Minister Pei Mian. Pei Mian's son fled to Chengdu, and the mansion was confiscated by Zhu Si and awarded to Zhang Feng.
Zhang Feng's house.
According to the common practice in the past dynasties, the families of all generals who control the army outside must live in the capital. Zhang Feng is no exception. Currently, his wife, children, and mother all live in the capital.
Zhu Si sent another twenty people to station outside his house, nominally to protect them, but actually to monitor them.
As early as two months ago, Guo Yuniang personally led more than a dozen men to the capital. She only had one mission in Beijing this time, which was to rescue Zhang Feng's wife, children, and mother from Chang'an before the end of August and send them to Hexi.
Although it only took one day to rescue people, it took two months to plan the rescue, including understanding the soldiers monitoring the Zhang Mansion, sending people disguised as gardeners to go undercover inside the Zhang Mansion, continuing to look for other monitors, etc.
All details must be carefully considered.
On August 30, the same day that the Tang Army arrived in Shanzhou, a messenger soldier came to the Zhang Mansion. This messenger soldier was Zhang Feng's former soldier. He returned to Yuanzhou to observe mourning because his parents died of illness. He was captured by Tiancelou.
Using coercion and inducement, and taking his wife and children hostage, the soldier had no choice but to agree to serve Tiance Tower.
The name of this private soldier was Jiang Wulang. Zhang Feng's wife and mother all knew him. Since he was delivering a message for the master, everyone believed him.
In the living room, Zhang Feng's wife Liang read the letter written by her husband. It was actually a note. It was a simple sentence. He had arranged for his family to leave Chang'an for Longyou as soon as possible, but the reason was not written.
Liang asked in surprise: "Okay, why does the master want us to go to Longyou?"
"I lost two battles in a row. Zhu Si summoned me to the capital, probably to kill me. I didn't want to go to the capital, but I was worried about the safety of my family, so I asked my wife and the old lady to go to Longyou."
Mrs. Liang was so frightened that her face changed, and she kept saying: "Then what should I do?"
"Madam, please pack some belongings and wait with your family in the inner house tonight. The master has arranged manpower. This must be kept secret. Not even the servants can tell. If anyone informs, the master will be dead."
Mrs. Liang was so frightened that she nodded repeatedly, quickly found her son and daughter, and helped her clean up her belongings.
The time appointed by the private soldier Jiang Wulang was at the fifth watch. As the time gradually reached the fourth watch, more than a dozen black figures appeared in an alley opposite Zhang's Mansion. The leader was Guo Yuniang. They observed for two months.
We have already figured out the soldiers monitoring Zhang's Mansion. There are twenty soldiers in total, living in the alley. They are not monitoring Zhang's Mansion day and night, and they open and close the gates in sync with each other. They sleep at night.
A dozen warriors climbed over the courtyard wall. They were ruthless and ruthless, killing all twenty sleeping soldiers silently, and then went straight to Zhang's mansion.
Zhu Si also created a secret warrior group called the Plum Blossom Guards, which monitored officials for him and also assassinated and eliminated some thorny officials.
In addition to sending twenty soldiers to monitor the Zhang Mansion, Zhu Si also sent one person from the Meihua Guard to be an undercover agent in the Zhang Mansion to monitor the Zhang family's movements from inside.
Tiancelou spent a lot of effort to find this person. His surname was Li, and everyone called him Lao Li Tou. He was the Zhang family's coachman, and he specialized in driving cars for the Zhang family, so he knew where the Zhang family went.
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Old Li Tou lived outside his house. At five o'clock in the morning, he was still sleeping soundly, but a dark shadow had quietly entered his room. The shadow flashed to his bedside, covered Old Li Tou's mouth, and