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Chapter 232 Mediation

When the Zhaowang family who arrived from Dengzhou brought Qingzhou envoys to Qingzhou and asked Li Guan to go to Qingzhou for the news of the matter, the three armies of Shamen Town had already robbed Guang and burned all the other three forts and six guards except Dayuanshan Island and Dashengan Island. The blazing flames burned half of the sky red, and the rolling black smoke enveloped half of Dengzhou. This time, the Shamen Army was very cruel and did not even let go of the Wuhu Islands that had just been looted once before. When they came again, they burned the fire of the village of the bald fort city.

It is not the most cruel thing to rob and burn it all. The most cruel thing is that Li Guan came to take off the firewood from the bottom of the pot and took away all the people on each island. Although the people are the least valuable, the population is the foundation. If there is no one in a place, it will be nothing. The prosperous Daxie Village has reached more than 100,000 people at the most prosperous time, but now, there are only tens of thousands of people in the South Island where Feng Zhang Lao Niao is located. The rest are all concentrated on Li Guan’s Shaman Island and Dayuanshan Island.

This is the most fatal blow. Even if Feng Zhang survived through the situation, he would never be able to deal with Li Guan again after the mediation from Qingzhou. His roots had been killed, and there would be no storm in the future. This time, Li Guan completely stabilized the strengths and weaknesses between the two.

Dayuanshan Island and several small islands around it are just west of Liquan Shamen Town. It was originally surrounded by Daxiang North and South Island in three and a half sides and surrounded Shamen Town. Now that Liquan occupied Dayuanshan Island, it suddenly confronted Fengchang's North and South Islands east and west, surrounding Dengzhou Gangtang Bay. If Gui Island and Wuhu Island were not separated from the North Island and were too far away, Liquan would have wanted to occupy these two archipelagos together.

After owning Dayuanshan Island, Li Guan's territory has increased significantly. Daheishan Island is almost ten times the area of ​​Shaman Island. The Luyuan Island has three large sizes of Shaman Town. Together with the surrounding small islands, Li Guan's territory has increased by more than ten times, making the strategic space even greater.

Standing on the dock, watching the ships returning to the port, bringing back the load of harvest, Li Yan couldn't stop laughing. It was at this moment that Li Huier came up with King Zhao's general and brought King Zhao's message.

It came so fast. Li Guan said intimately, fortunately they were moving quickly, and the robbery was completed in one day and one night.

"I wonder who the envoy from Qingzhou is?" Li Guan asked Zhang Hong to bring a 50 taels of pork waist silver to politely put it into the hands of the general. The other party was also an old acquaintance. Seeing that Li Guan was so polite, he accepted it without shirking it. He smiled and said, "The one who came is Brother Ji Yu's teacher Cui Sima. In addition, when I came, King Zhao said, "You are relieved that this time, the situation is very good. Song Jieshuai and Cui Sima will do their best to protect you, and the governor of Song and King Zhao will also support you with all their strength. So please don't have any worries. Cui Sima is the chief officer of the mediation this time. In addition, the governor of Song and Wang Changshi are deputy, so he invited King Zhao as the witness of mediation. The mediation will be carried out in Dengzhou. Please both you and Feng Zhang will come to Dengzhou."

When Li Guan heard that it was teacher Cui Zhuqing, he was finally relieved. Among the four people who mediated, he occupied three of them, and they were in the territory controlled by the commander-in-chief's office in Dengzhou. Li Guan didn't have to worry about anything else.

The general of the Zhaowang family sighed: "Brother Ji Yu is really showing off this time. He fought beautifully. Feng Zhang was very proud before. He didn't even give him much face. This time he was completely beaten by you. I heard that you copied Feng Zhang's old secrets in the past two days, so it was really cruel. I didn't see at all. It turned out that my brother was a hero in the world. I told you that I was with King Zhao, but I heard that King Zhao kept praising you these days. I have been with King Zhao for more than ten years. This is the first time I saw him praise him like this. Ji Yu was the first person. Last time Feng Zhang sent troops to attack Shamen Town, King Zhao also went to the governor's mansion immediately and contacted the various battalions of Dengzhou to prepare to send troops to rescue you. If the governor hadn't made up his mind for a long time, I would have almost gathered the Feng surnamed together to save him from looking at the sky."

Li Yan didn't know whether this was true or false, but he was still a little grateful after hearing it. Although he knew that King Zhao's purpose of helping him was not so pure, he was at least directed at him.

On that day, Li Guan summoned the generals again, first loudly praised the excellent performance of the generals. Then he told the story of King Zhao sending people to invite him to Dengzhou to participate in the mediation. When the generals heard that the Qingzhou Jieshu Mansion and Wang Jingwu finally reached a compromise. Not only did they not attack Shamen Town, they sent people to mediate. Moreover, when the person responsible for the mediation was Li Guan's teacher Cui Yunqing, all the generals breathed a sigh of relief.

Although everyone has been fighting these days, they beat Feng Zhang all over the ground for their teeth, and their noses and faces are bruised and swollen. They are like turtles and dare not show their heads. But while they are happy, there is actually a worry in their hearts. That is, they are worried that things will eventually go in the direction of worry, and that their behavior will be determined to be rebellious in the end, and then the troops of the camps will quell the rebellion, and then everything that everyone has been struggling with will be finished.

Now, everything has finally settled. Just as the general said, their risk-taking this time, and their desperate bet was finally successful, and they won the bet. Not only did no one say that they were rebellious, but they also sent marching Sima to mediate.

Mediation, these two words mean that this war is just a dispute between the two armies.

"General, you have to be careful of Feng Zhang's secret move. I was willing to take the brothers from the Special War Capital to Dengzhou!" Duan Shan said loudly. Li Wei immediately glared at him and shouted: "I have the final say or you have the final say in the reconnaissance camp. Before I could speak, you should take the lead. Get out of the way, this guard mission is of course my fault." Duan Shan was scolded by his superiors and retreated aside. Shamen Town is a place where orderly and orderly focus on the most. In addition to the usual military discussions and post-war summary, it is strictly forbidden to go up and down.

After the last debate, the officers decided that Li Wei and Duan Shan would lead the selection of the most elite one hundred brothers from the reconnaissance battalion, Li Yan, to Dengzhou. Megan would lead a fleet of thirty warships, leading escorts to Dengzhou Wharf, and escort 3,000 people all the way to Dengzhou Wharf, and prepare to respond at any time at Dengzhou Wharf. Lin Wei stayed on the island, while Wang Chong led the brothers on the right wing to prepare for attack at any time. Once Li Yan encountered trouble in Dengzhou, Wang Chonghua led the warships from Huang Huzi of Zhendonghai to Dengzhou Wharf to take full speed to Dengzhou Wharf, and went ashore with the naval battalion to pick up Li Yan.

Seeing this comprehensive preparation plan, Li Guan couldn't help but chuckled. Everyone was really making a big fuss. However, he did not deny it. Although it was a bit too mobilized, it was also everyone's loyalty to him, and it could also be regarded as a comprehensive cooperation exercise.

The next day, under the personal protection of Li Wei and Duan Shan, Li Yan added Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong and Xuan Chengzong to follow. In their words, they were Li Yan's servants before, so they naturally had to take action personally this time. In addition to Meghan and Julie's naval camp, the three sisters who were together everywhere were Li Huier, Princess Xihe, and Junior Sister Yu Youniang and Xiao Yulou.

Shamen Town is not far from Dengzhou Pier, and it arrives within an hour in less than 20 or 30 miles. When Megan's thirty large and small warships approached Dengzhou Water Village. Dengzhou Water Village was panicked, with drums and horns ringing, and dozens of warships quickly sailed out of the dock and made a warning and defensive formation.

Megan looked very proudly at the bow of the ship and said to Li Chen with a smile: "Our Shamen Town fleet is now famous. Look at the nervousness of those people in Wang Jin's family." Li Chen curled his lips, "Feng Zhang's fleet is known as the number one in the north of the Tang Dynasty, but in a short period of time, we destroyed eighty ships, half of which were destroyed. Do you think there is still a fleet that is not afraid of seeing us? Especially Wang Jin used to collude with pirates to attack us, and they must be very worried that we will hit Feng Zhang and the next one will come to them."

Wang Jin's fleet followed and escorted Li Yan's fleet into Dengzhou Wharf and finally returned to the water camp with relief. As soon as the ship entered the port, Li Yan had already seen the clearing of the road on the wharf, and a group of neat soldiers stood on the wharf. On the wharf, there were also a group of light green and dark green officials, including several eye-catching scarlet officials. These were officials of the fifth rank or above. In Dengzhou, only the governor and a few assistants were qualified to serve the fur.

As expected, those were all officials from Dengzhou. Facing Li Guan, a small town general who was only seventh-rank, almost all the important officials in Dengzhou arrived. He saw Song Wen, the governor of Dengzhou, from a distance, and then the teacher Cui Yunqing, who had not seen him for several months, and Wang Jingwen, who was a little distance from them, and Wang Jin, who stood with him, and the other was the pale face and awesome expression, was the Great Xie Fort military envoy. Feng Zhang, who had been beaten by him in recent days, was beaten to the door. In addition to them, there were also the Six Caoshi in Dengzhou and the chief generals of several major battalions.

Such a big welcome scene surprised Li Guan very much. Li Guan hurriedly walked forward a few steps forward, first giving Cui Yunqing a great gift, and then greeted Song Wen and others one after another. When he worshipped the Chief Secretary Wang Jingwen, the old man sneered a few times: "Li Zhen has such a great face. It makes so many of us wait here. Those who don't know think we are here to welcome the great commander of the Zhishang of Ziqing Town. Young people are easy to be proud. Look at the envoy of the military envoy, when he received the news yesterday, he rushed to Dengzhou."

Li Guan chuckled dismissively and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry. Yesterday, my brothers all went out to sea to fish and had good harvests. They were busy counting the harvests. I didn't expect that all Shangguan would wait for someone here. It was really rude."

As soon as this was said, Feng Zhang next to him suddenly groaned, and a wisp of blood was overflowing from the corner of his closed mouth. He trembled all over and shouted, "Little thief, you bully people too much, I will never die!" As he said that, he was about to pounce on him. Wang Jin next to him hurriedly held him. Li Guan stood there motionless, looking at Feng Zhang with contempt, "Remember you said this a few days ago. If you can tell someone to death with your mouth, then your opponent will probably be dead. If you are really so brave today, don't run so fast that day."
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