Fan Zeng died of illness on his journey home and was buried by Xiang Yu's followers at Pengcheng (彭城; present-day Xuzhou).
One night in the sixth lunar month of 196, he rebelled against Lü Bu in Xiapi (下邳; present-day Pizhou, Xuzhou, Jiangsu), the capital of Lü Bu's domain Xu Province, and led his men to attack Lü Bu's office, but was unable to break in.
More than 95% of the students in the Jiangning Campus have Chinese Citizenship, mainly local students from Jiangning and the urban area of Nanjing(It requires less grade in the Nanjing High School Entrance Examination to enter Jiangning Campus than the Urban campus of High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University), besides there are students from Yancheng, Xuzhou, Huai'an and other places in Jiangsu Province.
The nationalist headquarters in Xuzhou under Liu Zhi panicked and ordered the 13th army under Lieutenant General Li Mi, which was defending the east side of Xuzhou, to retreat to back to Xuzhou.
In early 884, Li Keyong led his troops to attack the anti-government rebel force of Huang Chao, and Shi was the vanguard general to assist the besieged cities of Chenzhou (陳州; in modern Zhoukou, Henan) and Xuzhou (許州; in modern Xuchang, Henan).
The Shiyu (世語) claimed that Wei Feng was a native of Pei (沛; around present-day Pei County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu), but the Jia Jie (家誡) by Wang Chang stated that he was from Jiyin (濟陰; around present-day Heze, Shandong).
Xuzhou dialect claims a rich vocabulary of unique terms, and also has important tonal differences from Mandarin.