The next morning, Yun Zheng handed over the important task of guarding Beilu Pass to Zuo Ren. He and Dugu Ce took five or six generals from Beilu Pass and led 20,000 elite troops to advance to the two front guards.
They could get supplies in Mayi, so they only carried a small amount of food and fodder.
Before setting off, Yun Zheng ordered Zuo Ren to send someone to bring the Shen family to Beilu Pass, and gave Zuo Ren a sealed letter, asking someone to pass it on to Mrs. Shen.
On their way to Mayi, the people sent out to contact various departments brought back a lot of good news.
Wei Wenzhong has been captured alive and is being taken to Jing'an Guard.
Chen Luoyan gathered thousands of soldiers who had escaped from Tianhu Lake and led his troops to temporarily station in Tianhu Lake.
Fu Tianyan had already captured Mayi. Mayi's defender Yuan Lie attempted to ambush and kill Fu Tianyan, but was executed.
Now, Fu Tianyan is stabilizing the situation in Mayi and has sent people to contact the garrison commander of Moyang.
The commander of Moyang knew that Wei Wenzhong's situation was hopeless, so he led his troops to surrender.
At this point, Yun Zheng had basically completed his control over the nine cities in Shuobei.
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However, Yun Zheng knew clearly in his heart that this seemingly good situation was fraught with dangers.
Before the morale of the Northern Army is completely won over, this good situation may collapse at any time.
Ten days later, Yun Zheng and Dugu Ce led their troops to Dingbei.
The army rested in Dingbei for two days and completed a major reorganization before heading to Jing'an Wei.
After three days of forced march, the army finally arrived at Jing'an Wei.
The first thing Yun Zheng did when he arrived at Jing'an Guard was not to see the imprisoned Wei Wenzhong, but to inquire about the casualties in the previous breakout from Gobian.
After these days of statistics, the casualties of that battle have been fully counted.
In that battle, among the 34,000 people who broke through the frontal encirclement, about 13,000 people died directly in battle or died from serious injuries in the past few days.
Moreover, there are still more than 2,000 wounded people receiving treatment.
It was thanks to the alcohol that Yun Zheng sent over, otherwise, more people would have died from serious injuries.
As for those who were slightly injured, there were countless of them.
Upon learning the result, Yun Zheng's face turned pale.
They had fought with Beihuan so many times in Shuofang before, and the casualties were only about a thousand.
However, in just one breakout battle at Gobian, their casualties reached 13,000.
If we include the group led by him and Qin Qihu, their casualties almost reached 14,000!
Moreover, there were more than 20,000 old and weak farmers who had been ambushed by Beihuan before!
More than 30,000 people!
Because of Wei Wenzhong’s evil plot, more than 30,000 of them were killed!
If we add in the casualties from the previous Beihuan raid on Beiyuan Shallows, their casualties would have reached 70,000!
Although Beihuan lost more people than them, it was not much more.
After fighting throughout the winter, they can be considered the winner.
But this was just a narrow victory.
With a heart full of anger, Yun Zheng ordered Wei Wenzhong to be brought up.
After more than half a month, Yun Zheng finally saw Wei Wenzhong again.
At this moment, Wei Wenzhong no longer had the majestic appearance of the former commander of the Northern Army. His hair was also messy, and he suddenly looked like he had aged ten years.
"Traitor! You shall not die a hapless death!"
When he saw Yun Zheng, Wei Wenzhong's lifeless eyes suddenly burst into murderous intent, like a wolf that wanted to tear Yun Zheng into pieces.
"Traitor, you are not ashamed to call me a traitor?"
Yun Zheng glared at Wei Wenzhong, "You collaborated with the enemy and betrayed your country, killing more than 30,000 people, what are you?"
"No! They were not killed by me! They were killed by you!" Wei Wenzhong stared at Yun Zheng with his eyes fixed, "If you didn't want to seize power, why would I have gone this far? They were all killed by you!"
Today, no matter how much Wei Wenzhong denies, it is useless.
The soldiers who broke out of the siege had already spread the news of his treason to everyone.
No matter how much he denied it, it was meaningless.
"This king does want to seize power!"
Yun Zheng did not deny it, and said coldly: "But I dare to say with all my heart that I have never thought of sending the soldiers of the Northern Army to their deaths! If you don't want me to seize power, then show me your ability!"
"But what did you do? Apart from being afraid of fighting, you only collaborated with the enemy and murdered your own people!"
"If you can use the same skills you used to murder your own people against the Northern Huan enemy, I will still respect you as a hero!"
"But today, I am ashamed that the Northern Army has a traitor like you!"
Facing Yun Zheng's cold gaze, Wei Wenzhong felt inexplicably uneasy.
However, Wei Wenzhong soon felt relieved.
Everything has fallen into Yun Zheng's hands, what is there for him to be afraid of?
"There is no point in talking any more, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit!"
Wei Wenzhong sneered, "Yun Zheng, don't be too happy too soon. Even if you have seized the military power of the Northern Army, what does it matter? Facing the double attack of the imperial court and Beihuan, do you think you can resist with just this few people? Even if the imperial court does not attack Shuobei, as long as your supply is cut off, you will die! My fate today will be your fate in the future!"
Yun Zheng thought he won?
No, not yet!
Once the news of Yun Zheng's seizure of power reaches the imperial city, Emperor Wen will definitely cut off the supply of the Northern Palace Army immediately!
Without supplies, the Northern Army will soon fall apart!
By then, Beihuan will come and beat the fallen dog, and the Beifu Army will be completely destroyed!
And the entire Shuobei will fall into the hands of Beihuan!
"good!"
Yun Zheng stared at Wei Wenzhong, "I will let you and the soldiers of the Northern Army see if I can defend Shuobei! Today, I will make a promise in front of these generals: If Shuobei is lost, the soldiers of Shuobei can kill me!"
Listening to Yun Zheng's words, the generals were moved and secretly admired Yun Zheng's courage.
To be honest, if they had sufficient supplies, they firmly believed that they could regain the lost territory and hold Shuobei.
But if Emperor Wen completely cut off the supply of the Northern Palace Army, they really would have no confidence in defending Shuobei.
"Haha, you are really good at winning people's hearts!"
Wei Wenzhong smiled sinisterly and said, "Yun Zheng, make your move! I will be waiting for you in the underworld!"
"Don't worry, I won't kill you for now! I will have you taken back to the Imperial City and let my father decide your fate!"
Yun Zheng shook his head gently. "I am just very curious. You clearly had not entered the Jing'an Guard before. How did you find anything unusual?"
This problem troubled Yun Zheng for a long time.
He really couldn't understand how Wei Wenzhong could see the flaw.
"Hey, I won't tell you! Aren't you capable? Just guess it yourself!"
A look of revengeful pleasure appeared on Wei Wenzhong's face.
At this point, this was the only way for him to take revenge on Yun Zheng.
"It doesn't matter!"
Yun Zheng said disapprovingly, "As long as you can withstand the torture, it doesn't matter if I don't know! You are the commander of the Northern Army. I believe that you should know more about the methods of interrogating the enemy than I do!"
He was indeed curious about the answer to this question.
But he really couldn't think of the answer.
Faced with Yun Zheng’s threat, Wei Wenzhong couldn’t help but feel a chill in his heart.
Of course he knew the methods of interrogating his enemies.
Those endless interrogation methods were so terrifying just thinking about them, let alone using them on him.
After hesitating for a long time, Wei Wenzhong said with disdain: "Do you think your trick is perfect? I have already agreed with Wei Shuo that when I receive the news of your death, all the soldiers in the city will wear mourning clothes..."
Damn it!
Hearing Wei Wenzhong's words, Yun Zheng couldn't help but swear in his heart.
After all this fuss, it turns out that the problem lies here!
This bastard really thinks things through!
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