Early the next morning, Zheng Jiezhi, the envoy of Duli Town, received a message from the Shamen Town Army and asked him to go to the Council Hall. He finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this news. He had been in Duli Town for a whole day, but except for being stayed in the inn by Yan Ling, he was accused of not going anywhere. After staying in the inn room for a day, he had already seen that this inn was not an ordinary inn. From the scar-faced shopkeeper, to the lame servant, and the blind runner-up hall, there was no normal person, all of whom were disabled. Moreover, when these people saw that they had a different aura from the ordinary shopkeeper.

This was a group of veterans. Although they retreated due to injuries, the smell of blood on their bodies was still there. He understood that it must be the person who was monitoring him in Shamen Town, so he had to stay honestly in the room all day.

When Li Yan saw his place on Shaman Island instead of Daxie Island, he followed a group of soldiers with a thick face with iron armor and a grim expression on a boat to Shaman Island. Along the way, he carefully observed and found that Daxie Island and Shaman Island were everywhere on the piers, as well as countless piles of goods, and a large group of live porters were loading the ship. In addition, there were many arrow towers on the pier, especially on Shaman Island. He landed on the Phoenix Mountain Wharf. As soon as he got ashore, he saw a total of nine fortresses with a circumference of fifty steps, as high as six feet high as a crown. Next to this group of thirty-six giant beasts, there were also thirty-six arrow towers with an equal height of six feet.

He remembered what he had heard before. When Feng Zhang first attacked Shamen Town, he was defeated here. At that time, he thought this was a bit too surprising, but now he really stepped on this dock, so he was not shocked. Such dense fortifications are indeed easy to defend but difficult to attack.

However, when he followed the soldiers to the front of Shamen Town, he was even more surprised.

In front of him was a brand new huge castle. The entire town was three hundred steps long from north to south, two hundred steps from east to west, and one thousand steps long. The entire town was much larger than the Da Xie Fort City with a 200-step circumference, and not much smaller than the Chishan Town and Dengzhou City with a circumference of 1,500 steps.

By this time in April, due to Li Yan's large investment in manpower, material resources and financial resources, the construction of the entire town has accelerated a lot compared to the original plan. At present, the most critical city wall has been basically completed, and the huge rammed earth-covered wall of six feet high has been completed. The entire castle is an enlarged version of a small castle on a pier. The walls covered with edges and edges are tall and majestic, like a huge mountain standing.

In addition to the city towers, corner towers and arrow towers on the city walls, the city gate wall city, a moat that is ten feet wide and three feet deep has also been dug. The huge moat ditch seems to be a sky stream outside the city wall, waiting to introduce live water from the foot of Phoenix Mountain to fill it.

The area outside the moat was cleared within a hundred steps. There were no trees or piles of earth, and it was shoveled into flat ground. It was clear at a glance at the top of the city, and it would be very difficult for anyone to sneak into the city.

In addition to the curved twenty-step wide avenue in front of the four city gates, the rest of the places were covered with sinkholes as big as two feet deep washbasins, and countless pointed wooden stakes with calves were planted. In addition, many calves are spread on the ground. This calves have four feet about three inches long. No matter how they are thrown, one foot must be facing upwards. Such calves are spread out of the city, forming a solid line of defense with the sinkhole and deer feet. Even if there are troops that can raid the city, these things alone can greatly block the enemy's footsteps. By the time they take the time to clear the obstacle, the defenders in the city will be ready for defense.

Stepping through the suspension bridge with iron chains hanging from pigeon eggs and entering the tall door hole. Zheng Jiezhi kept looking at the gate of the city gate, but saw that in addition to the two iron-packed giant wooden doors outside, there was a huge stone gate inside. It was estimated that it could weigh at least a thousand pounds. If there was no cattle and horse, the door could not be twisted at all. Moreover, there were many hidden holes on both sides of the walls in the gate hole. As well as shooting holes, the archers inside could hide inside and shoot directly.

When he entered Wengcheng Gate, he was facing a tall city wall, which had to go east for a hundred steps. It was the real south gate. Zheng Jiezhi looked at countless prominent edges and corners, and he secretly estimated in his heart that even if he took Wengcheng Gate, the attacking soldiers would be completely at the full firepower attack on the prismal city wall at a distance of 100 steps from the urn city gate to the inner city gate. This is a death zone.

The leader who led the way saw him looking around and constantly looking around, he couldn't help but chuckled and said to him: "How is this city, is it majestic enough!"

"How majestic!" Zheng Jiezhi nodded very seriously. Zheng Jiezhi was born in Xingyang, and was the direct descendant of one of the five surnames and seven high schools in Shandong. He has never been to Chang'an and Luoyang in half his life. The city is much more majestic than Shamen Town. Not to mention Chang'an, Luoyang, even Duli Town, it is also a huge city with a population of 200,000 and a population of 300,000 to 400,000 migrants for many years. Duli Town is much larger than Shamen Town, but what he praised is his heart. Shamen Town may have a huge city with 200,000 people. Duli Town is much larger than Shamen Town, but what he praised was his heart. Shamen Town may have

It is a little small, but the city's defense performance is definitely the largest and most defensive among the same cities. In particular, this is actually a fortress castle built in four months, which is amazing no matter what. Duli Town has existed for hundreds of years in Goguryeo. Later, after the Tang people occupied it, it was more than two hundred years before it reached its current scale. However, Li Guan built such a castle in April, and Li Guan was just a small town general. How can it not be amazing?

Entering the center of the town, in front of the town general's office, the stone-carved green wolf was swaying in its claws, revealing its sharp wolf teeth and sharp claws. The pair of wolf eyes made of glass had a hint of blood in their pupils, as if they were staring at everyone passing by it all the time. The timid people would feel a huge pressure and shudder.

After passing by the giant wolf, there were several arrow towers in front of them. A row of military policemen wearing black armor but red armbands with the words "Inner Arms" were on duty. When they passed by, Zheng Jiezhi was strictly inserted before he was released.

Going further forward, the ninety-nine steps in front of the town general's mansion, the sides of the steps were covered with tall soldiers with silver helmets and silver armors. They stood still, as if they were two rows of sculptures. But Zheng Jiemin believed that if these guards who were still as motionless as mountains would be moving, they would definitely be moving like tigers. When they were up the stairs, they had just been under the pressure of the giant wolf, but now they were pressured by these guards like sculptures. Zheng Jiezhi felt that his calves were trembling constantly and almost cramping. He felt that this was very ridiculous, and he had seen many strong winds and waves, but today he was really uncontrollably deterred. This was a kind of fear from the bottom of his heart.

When he entered the hall, he saw a lot of halls.

On the left are Wen Liao, wearing hard horns, wings, and round-necked robe.

But on the right, they were all tall generals wearing red lacquer mountain armor and red cloak.

The position of the civil servant was slightly surprised by the left and the military servants. As he knew, as today, the military officials were not respected by martial arts, but the status of the literati was not high. Unexpectedly, the small Shamen Town had great military achievements, but the military generals were still inferior to the literati. This Shamen Town really revealed a different mystery everywhere. He raised his eyes and looked at the seat at the top secretly.

It was a black iron head. On the back of the black and blue iron head, nine bright swords were inserted in a fan shape, with the sword tip facing upwards. It looked very strange. Under the sharp edges of these nine long swords, there was a young man sitting on the iron head. He was really young, although he was tall and tall, nearly seven feet tall, with starry eyebrows, white eyes, and red lips. He was painted in a scarlet mountain war armor, wearing a long cloak of scarlet gold silk, and he did not wear a head or a croaker. Instead, he was wearing a purple-gold crown with his hands on the iron seat, but his eyes were looking at him with a smile.

Zheng Jiezhi quickly lowered his head and did not dare to look at Li Yan. He walked forward a few times and bowed and bowed: "Zheng Jiezhi, the envoy of the city lord of Duli Town, met General Ji Yu and greeted the general on behalf of my city lord."

"Hello General Zheng!" Li Guan looked down at this envoy who was over fifty years old and had a silver hair. He had already received all the news about the envoy from Gongsun Lan and Li Wei. He had not seen him a day yesterday, so he asked someone to touch his bottom. This person was the direct descendant of the Zheng family in Xingyang, Henan, but not the eldest son but the second son. So he was finally arranged to go to Duli Town. He has been in Duli Town for many years and is now the deputy lord of Duli Town. He can be regarded as a person with more rights to do things in Duli Town. This time, Duli Town sent him to be an envoy, which is very sincere.

"General Zheng!" Zhang Chengye, the military supervisor, sat in the first place in the left head, still above Zhang Hong. He said in his unique and slightly sharp voice: "Duli Town wants to truce, I don't know what conditions you bring, say it out. If you don't have sincerity, there is no need to say it."

Zhang Chengye's aggressive attitude suddenly made Zheng Jiezhi frown. Although he had expected that this trip would not be easy, he did not expect that it would be so difficult. He looked up and said in confusion: "I don't know who this person is?"

"This is the close servant of His Majesty Chang'an Emperor. Zhang Chengye, who was once the envoy of the Military Supervisor of Ziqing Town, and his father was Zhang Gong, the chief attendant of Chang'an. Now he is specially sent to Shamen Town to serve as the Military Supervisor." Li Guan replied.

Zheng Jiezhi was even more shocked. Shamen Town is just a small town, and now there is a military supervisor. And it is not an ordinary military supervisor. This young eunuch is actually the adopted son of the Zhongchang Shishi. He couldn't help but feel a headache. When he came, he underestimated Li Guan. With such a military supervisor, Li Guan could reach Tianyan directly.

Zheng Jiezhi bowed to Zhang Chengye again, and then said in a humble tone: "I am here to ask for peace on behalf of Duli Town. The last incident was just a misunderstanding. It was all because of Feng Zhang's false words that motivated the Feng family in my city. They lobbied many representatives of the affairs, and finally the last battle was in the last battle. We were also deceived, but we are willing to make compensation for our mistakes." Zheng Jiemin said their conditions: "Duli Town is willing to compensate Shamen Town and Qingnipu each with 200,000 guan. In addition, we also hope that our soldiers captured by the two families will be willing to pay for redemption, and we will pay for 100,000 guan for redemption. Correspondingly, Duli Town hopes that Shamen Town and Qingnipu will cease to fight from now on and restore friendship."

Zhang Chengye cleared his throat, "The deputy envoy of Daxiezhai, the general of Shamen Town, the vanguard of the Jiedu, the Jieduya, the guerrilla general, the commander of the cavalry, General Li Yan of the Qingnipu, and General Li Lingfu of Qingnipu, as well as our family and everyone have carefully considered the peace conditions you proposed, but I regret to tell you that these conditions are unacceptable. Please go back and tell Wang Pu that we will give you a chance to have a formal decisive battle, which allows you to freely choose a day, and our three families will decide the outcome."

Zheng Jiezhi was stunned. His conditions had just been raised, but the eunuch actually said that they had considered it all. Isn’t this nonsense? But he dared not blame them. Who said that he was the one who asked for peace now? Swallowed, Zheng Jiezhi licked his dry lips, "Please think more about it. It will be no good for everyone to ignite the war. Be kind and make money. If the generals are not satisfied with the conditions we have put forward, you can also make your own requests. We can discuss it slowly, and we can always seek common ground while reserving differences in the end."

Li Guan smiled. Duli Town was as afraid of going to war as he expected. Since they were determined to be peaceful, he should not blame himself for ruthless offer.

"My conditions are as follows!" Li Guan shouted: "All soldiers and horses in Duli Town must re-enter the Tang Dynasty, declare their loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and will pay taxes to the court in the future. Each family must send a direct descendant to my Shamen Town as a hostage. As long as Duli Town is loyal to the Tang Dynasty from now on, their sons will be treated with courtesy and will never be hurt. This is a prerequisite. Only when this condition is met, the details of the following need to be discussed."

Zheng Jiezhi was stunned when he heard this condition. In fact, although the entire Liaodong and Liaoxi were no longer under the control of the court, in fact, Liaodong and Liaoxi still belong to the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Until now, no one in the countries of Bohai and Silla dared to truly publicly violate this. Therefore, in fact, Duli Town was originally under the rule of the Tang Dynasty. It was only because of the various special situations in Liaodong that the situation of Duli Town has been in such a free trade city for a hundred years. The demand for Li Guan to join the Tang Dynasty is nothing, it is just to pay some taxes to the court. The court cannot really reach out to Duli Town.

"Okay, we're willing to accept this."
Chapter completed!