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Chapter 22 Returning to the Heart is Like an Arrow

On the evening of December 19th, Lin Feng, who successfully achieved his goal of this trip, led 300 special forces soldiers and 600 Tujia warriors to leave Baihu Peak and rushed north and headed straight for Chenzhou City.

At midnight, Lin Feng met Zhou Xingfeng and learned that Liu Yan had ordered Chenzhou to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. He had cut his throat and committed suicide. The rest of the family disappeared. The Liu family's soldiers were scattered all over, and the Tang Dynasty elite soldiers who had just arrived had successfully taken over the entire Chenzhou City.

Lin Feng knew that Zhou Xingfeng deliberately played a verb ball in order to protect the Liu Yan family, and ignored it and immediately left behind three thousand mixed soldiers of the Tang Dynasty and Tanzhou, led by commander Wu Hong, and temporarily stationed in Chenzhou;

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

At noon on December 20, Lin Feng rushed to the city of Langzhou where the city gate was opened and met with the five thousand elite troops from the Wuchang Army led by Zhao Yu, deputy general of the Wuchang Army.

Before Lin Feng entered the city, Ma Guanghui and Ma Bin led the remaining members of the Ma family to greet each other and knelt on the ground, expressing their willingness to surrender to the Tang Dynasty and move their families to Jinling.

Of course, Lin Feng was very satisfied with this attitude. He stepped forward to help Ma Guanghui up and said some respect and congratulations to Ma Xi'e, hoping that the court would be a minister in the future to be prosperous and win-win. He suggested that Ma Guanghui immediately transfer all the defenses and all the classics and documents of Langzhou to Zhao Yu, pack his luggage, and be sure to arrive at Jinling City before the fourth day of the first lunar month.

Ma Guanghui hurriedly agreed.

After Lin Feng told me some precautions, he immediately led his troops to Yuezhou at the eastern end of Dongting Lake without stopping.

Previously, when Ma Xi'e attacked Tanzhou, Yuezhou Governor Wang Zan made a "strong order" and refused to surrender. Ma Xi'e had to leave in vain. Since then, there have been chaos in Tanzhou city, 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. He just found a handwritten word on the cloth and tied it to the arrow shaft, allowing Qin Hansheng to shoot into the city. Wang Zan took the arrow from the guards and expanded the cloth piece and saw that there were only four words on it: "As an official? for the people?"

Yuezhou is not an airtight wall. Guizhou is "defeated" and won again. Tanzhou has been in chaos. The news that the Tang Dynasty had exempted the tuition and rent for three years had already caused a stir in the city and panic. Under this background, Lin Feng's four words are heart-wrenching questions: You, Wang Zan, have never expressed your opinion and did not choose a side station. Are you 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 governor's mansion, took off his official uniform, hung the official seal on the beam of the mansion hall, and floated away with his family, missing. Then, the governor of Yuezhou City consciously opened the city gate and welcomed Lin Feng into the city.

In the past, Ma Xi'e led a large army to attack Yuezhou City, which had not been set for five days, was easily captured by Lin Feng.

After that, Lin Feng left a thousand Tang soldiers to guard Yuezhou City and escorted two thousand Yuezhou soldiers to Tanzhou City.

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

Li Congqian, Liu Renshan, Tuoba Heng and others led ministers out of the city to greet each other. The "master and apprentice" who had not seen each other for many days met and hugged each other excitedly. However, Lin Feng immediately reacted, pushed Li Congqian away gently, knelt down on one knee, and expressed his respect to His Highness Nine in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Congqian pulled Lin Feng up, kept muttering the thrilling and exciting process after breaking up with Lin Feng in Guizhou, and kept asking about the details of Lin Feng's 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 black because of his beard, he couldn't help but sigh that after a trip to Chu State, the Ninth Highness had matured rapidly after the continuous catalysis of politics!

When he returned to the Chu King's Mansion in the city, Lin Feng, who was about to attend the reception banquet for Li Congqian, actually met Lin Renzhao and Xi Mucheng who had just returned to the city. After learning that the Ningyuan Jiedushi Ma Xijun immediately opened the city to surrender after receiving the imperial edict of the Tang Dynasty. Everyone was in a happy mood and shouted loudly to expand the scale of the wedding banquet, and called all the meritorious officials to celebrate together.

As soon as the banquet started, good news came again. Two assassination teams sent by Lin Feng returned. Puguishan and Lei Shanming's heads were also successfully brought back. The happy Lin Feng immediately ordered to add a table and invite these brothers who had worked hard all the way to the table. The atmosphere during the table became even more lively.

The banquet lasted nearly midnight before it dispersed. Lin Feng, Li Congqian, Liu Renshan and Tuoba Heng walked into a secret room and negotiated many major issues at present.

On December 23, it was the Little New Year. Lin Feng organized a large-scale military commendation in front of the King of Chu Mansion, paying tribute to the heroes who died in the war in Guizhou, and commending the outstanding officers and soldiers on the spot.

The process of this commendation meeting was basically very similar to the memorial service of the Guizhou War. Lin Feng stood on the wall of the mansion and loudly read out the number of soldiers who died. He posthumously named them as martyrs of the Guizhou War. He announced a policy of compassion on the spot and paid pensions to the representatives of the sacrificed soldiers on the spot.

Unlike the Guizhou region, most of the local soldiers who died in the Guizhou War were the main body of the Chu army. There were quite a few people from inside and outside Tanzhou. Many of their families cried in tears in the square. The atmosphere at the scene was solemn, heavy and depressing.

In this sad atmosphere, Lin Feng announced that Huichun Garden, which was originally a royal garden, will be open to all the public from now on. The Tang Dynasty has invested and started to build a monument in the park to remember all heroes and talents who have sacrificed their lives for the country, the nation, and the people's livelihood!

"Let the heroes be immortal, may the heroes rest in peace!" Lin Feng shouted, calling on everyone at the scene to observe a half-quarter of a silence for these heroes.

"The hero has passed away, but the bright future is in our own hands! Today is the Little New Year. On behalf of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the Ninth Highness, I wish the people in and outside Tanzhou City a happy New Year in advance! During the Chinese New Year, the Tang Dynasty will issue 50 New Year gifts to each household in Tanzhou City!" Lin Feng still gave out the news that made the people on the scene excited. In fact, this is all Ma Xi'e, Ma Xichong just found it from Tanzhou City, and Lin Feng just took a part of it to give back to the original "divorce master"!

However, it was this kind of political practice of "taking over one hundred" and the soldiers present, and the people of Tanzhou immediately shouted excitedly. Compared with the cruelty and reckless behavior of the Ma brothers, the people of the Tang Dynasty reduced their taxes and rents, made money, respected soldiers, and respected the people... what brought was the perfect positive energy!

After the ceremony, firecrackers and firecrackers were heard everywhere in Tanzhou City, and the atmosphere of celebration suddenly became stronger. Many people were excited and took to the streets to celebrate the arrival of the Little 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 and unsuccessful former Chu elders and young men, few people were willing to talk about it.

After all the major events were arranged, Lin Feng could no longer suppress his longing for Zhou Ehuang, his longing for Xiao Feier, Duan Feihong, Yaya, Feifei, and his concern for Li Jing, Li Jingsui, Li Yu, and his concern for the Tang Academy of Sciences and supermarkets. Jinling City, thousands of miles away, suddenly became more important than anything else, and attracted his heart like a magnet.

Lin Feng, who was eager to return home, began to quickly deploy the matter at hand like a lantern: he took the initiative to meet with Huang Zongwang and other wealthy businessmen in Chu and discussed and agreed on the next commercial development and cooperation plan for Chu and Tang. He met Zhang Longxing and promoted him to the deputy commander of Tanzhou to train new recruits; he arranged for Cheng Yuehai to be a temporary instructor, responsible for the training of all newly joined special forces, elite troops, and the Sin Battalion, and closed training at the East Gate Military Camp in Tanzhou City. Two months later, he rushed to Jinling to meet with him...

He was busy until the evening when Lin Feng rushed to the King of Chu's Mansion and tried every possible way to comfort him. Finally, he comforted Li Congqian, who was determined to go back with him, and sincerely asked Liu Renshan to preside over the reorganization of the existing army and arrange the defense of various parts of the Chu State.

Early in the morning of December 24, Lin Feng led 30 original special soldiers and fifty carefully selected masters to board his own ships, one big and one small, and raised his sails, headed north along the Xiang River and headed straight into the river, headed east along the river, and ran thousands of miles away from Jinling.
Chapter completed!
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