Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 600 594. The world is united
Feng Xi ignored Zhang Nan who was somewhat complacent. Judging from what he said, apart from proposing a beginning, wasn't the plan perfected by Zhao Lei?
Feng Xi looked carefully at the bodies of Cao Rui and Sima Yi. Cao Rui and his brother looked very similar, and it was obvious that they were definitely from the same family. Their identities had also been confirmed by the captives in Luoyang City before they came.

Of course, Cao Rui was not the main character, Sima Yi was.

Sima Yi's eye sockets were indeed sunken and his nose was hooked, which was exactly what he looked like. Unfortunately, Sima Yi was now a corpse with a closed mouth and nose and a big hole on his neck. All future stories had nothing to do with him.

The Emperor Xuan of Jin died within half an hour of entering Hebei, and his two sons, Emperor Jing of Jin Sima Shi and Emperor Wen of Jin Sima Zhao, also died. At least in this world, the Sima family's Jin Dynasty will never appear again.

However, the deaths of Sima Yi and Cao Rui were just the beginning. According to Zhang Nan, Fu Rong's progress was very smooth, and Jizhou surrendered to the Han army without bloodshed.

Hebei was ruled by Cao Wei for only a dozen years, and the old hatred has not been diluted by time. After Cao Wei ruled Hebei, its behavior of wanting to plunder the land was also unpopular. Now that the Han army landed in Bohai, the local people did not say that they were given food and drink, but also welcomed them along the streets.

Fu Rong also gained something. Xiahou Chong, who was sent to Hebei to deal with the people's livelihood, was also captured alive by Fu Rong. Xiahou Chong originally refused to surrender, but when the news came from Luoyang, Fu Rong handed Xiahou Chong a letter of persuasion written by Xiahou Mao in a serious manner. Xiahou Chong was silent for a long time. Although he did not give in, his attitude was obviously not so resistant.

After all, although he is the head of the Xiahou family, he also has to consider the whole family. He can't be like Xiahou Yuan's family, where the whole family died for the country.

Fu Rong did not bring too many soldiers with him on this trip, so after taking Jizhou, he had no ability to continue expanding outward. Fortunately, the attitude of Youzhou was very intriguing. They only increased the defense of the grassland, but did not react at all to the appearance of the Han army, as if they did not care about the Han army's next move at all.

However, Feng Xi knew that those border troops were not really interested in the power of the Central Plains. They only cared about guarding the elders and folks of Youzhou. If the world was settled by then, with just one letter, the border troops of Youzhou would directly join the ranks of the Han army.

Deng Ai's attack on Qingzhou from Xuzhou to the north was also very smooth. After all, Cao Wei was mainly defending against the three main attack directions of the Han army at that time. Qingzhou and Jizhou were almost blank areas, so it was reasonable for them to surrender.

Good news came from Liang Province a few days later. Ma Chao and Ma Dai easily captured Jincheng, Wuwei and other counties in Liang Province with their prestige and elite Han troops. At this time, they were ready to go to Bingzhou with a group of Qiang soldiers who were willing to follow them.

At this point, of the thirteen states of the former Han Dynasty, except for Youzhou and Bingzhou, the other eleven states all belonged to the Han Dynasty.

While Zhuge Liang was handling Luoyang affairs, he ordered a fast horse to send the victory report back to Chengdu. Although there were carrier pigeons, they were only used to deliver emergency messages, so such an important event had to be more formal.

After Feng Xi had an in-depth conversation with Zhuge Liang, he led 60,000 Jingzhou troops and some Sichuan army generals, with the assistance of the Han army's navy, to cross the river to the north, preparing to wipe out the last remnants of the Wei Kingdom in Youzhou and Bingzhou.

Xu Shu and the Yangzhou Army were assigned to go to the occupied areas to restore local order. After all, chaos and turmoil can easily breed banditry and disrupt the local economy.

After Feng Xi's army crossed the river, they learned that the Duke of Shanyang, Liu Xie, who had been living in seclusion in Shanyang, had been taken to Wen County by the Sima family and held hostage. Feng Xi guessed that this was probably a backup plan left by Sima Yi for the Sima family. Shanyang County was not far to the northeast of Wen County and was also in Henei County. It would take less than four days for the Sima family to go back and forth to Shanyang County.

This "unexpected" situation disrupted Feng Xi's plan, and Feng Xi had to attack Wen County first. Wen County was the base of the Sima family. The Sima family had gathered thousands of family soldiers, servants and local county soldiers in the city, trying to resist stubbornly.

But how could these thousands of miscellaneous troops resist the high-spirited and aggressive Han army? The city wall of Wen County was breached in one round of attack by the Han army. After the Han army entered Wen County, the desperate Sima family tried to threaten the Han army to withdraw with the life of Shanyang Duke Liu Xie. Feng Xi had no choice but to order the troops to temporarily withdraw from Wen County.

Unexpectedly, that night the Sima family was so cruel that they directly set fire to the Sima family mansion in an attempt to destroy themselves together. The Han army outside the city once again rushed into Wen County, but when Feng Xi led the army into the Sima family, they found that Shanyang Duke Liu Xie had been brutally killed by the remnants of the Sima family, and his body was burnt.

Feng Xi therefore submitted a petition to confess his guilt but no further mention was made of it. However, this matter was later considered suspicious by the public, such as why the Sima family would set fire to their own home after the Han army retreated. Some said that they heard an explosion coming from the Sima family that night, and then saw the flames.

Some people also say that although Liu Xie’s body was burnt, he had already died before that and the body was just destroyed later.

But no matter what, it is certain that Liu Xie, the former Emperor Xian of Han and now Duke of Shanyang, who is only 40 years old, is dead.

Apart from this unexpected situation, the Han army marched northward and directly entered Bingzhou. When the Han army approached Jinyang, the governor of Bingzhou, Liang Xi, opened the city and surrendered, presenting the seal and documents to Feng Xi.

However, when Feng Xi asked about Wu Zhi, the General of the Central Army whom Sima Yi had been thinking about, he learned that Wu Zhi knew that Bingzhou could not resist the Han army, so he went to Youzhou and prepared to contact Tian Yu, Qian Shao and others to rely on the elite Youzhou border troops to fight against the Han army.

After notifying Zhuge Liang to send someone to take over Bingzhou, Feng Xi led his army northward and entered Youzhou from Dai County.

By the time the Han army arrived in Ji County, Wu Zhi's head had already been sent to Feng Xi's tent by Tian Yu and Qian Shao. They were not fools, and they would only be crazy to agree to Wu Zhi's solicitation just because Wu Zhi came to persuade them to fight against the Han army.

Feng Xi encouraged them and asked them to continue to be careful to guard against the foreign tribes in the north, so as to prevent them from coming to harass because of the turmoil in the Central Plains. Of course, Feng Xi first left 10,000 strong soldiers of the Jingzhou Army in Youzhou, led by Guan Xing and Chen Shi, nominally for support, but in fact also for monitoring and controlling Youzhou.

In this way, the last unstable factor within the Han Dynasty was completely eliminated, and Feng Xi's army started from Yizhou, passed through Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Sizhou, Bingzhou and Youzhou, and finally completely eliminated Cao Wei and successfully revived the Han Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)