The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 153 Chapter 153
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In this battle for Yanzhou, which lasted for more than half a month, Lu Bu died in battle, and his old troops were completely incorporated by Zhang Yan.

Cao Cao was defeated and was forced to cross the Yellow River north to Yuan Shao who was attached to Jizhou.

Zhang Yan won the battle for Yanzhou with an absolute advantage. Looking at the entire Yanzhou, there is no one who can compete with Zhang Yan.

However, for Zhang Yan, although he won the final victory in this war, what Lu Bu and Cao Cao left him was a devastated Yanzhou.

Because of the suffering of the war, most of the people in Yanzhou dragged their families away from their hometowns to avoid this innocent disaster.

The most serious ones were Dongjun, Jiyin and Chenliu. These three counties were the areas where Lu Bu and Cao Cao fought most frequently. The people in the three counties were displaced and the fields were barren.

Take Lihu as an example. Lu Bu and Cao Cao once fought fierce battles here. When both armies retreated from this place, there was not a single person within a radius of several tens of miles.

In addition, Puyang, Zhencheng, Fanxian, Yongqiu and other places are actually empty.

It may only take a short time to destroy a city.But to build a city, it takes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.

Lu Bu died in battle, Cao Cao was defeated, and Zhang Yan was able to occupy Yanzhou. However, what also fell on his shoulders was the important task of rebuilding Yanzhou.

On the way back to Puyang from Jicheng Ferry, Zhang Yan didn't have the slightest smile on his face, but frowned tightly. How to rebuild Yanzhou will be the next thing he will do.

Cao Cao retreated to Hebei, and the remaining Cao soldiers were almost killed by Xuzhou soldiers. When Zhang Yan led his army back to Puyang City, the battle had already ended.

All the troops returned to Puyang City one after another, and began to count the casualties of the war and report the military exploits obtained by their troops.

That night, the battle situation of each department had been counted. First, it was reported to General Fenyong Yujin, and then due to the ban, the casualty situation was calculated uniformly, and the list of military achievements was prepared, and then it was handed over to Zhang Yan for review.

Zhang Yan received the battle report from Yu Jin, and took a quick look at it. It clearly stated that the number of people killed in the Battle of Puyang was 860 people, and 180 people were injured. If you count the previous battles The number of casualties in the war, after statistics, was also 73.

In other words, from Zhang Yan's entry into Yanzhou to the present, the army has killed a total of 73 people and injured almost 4000 soldiers.

This kind of casualty cost is a bit too high for Cao Jun, who has only more than 1 people.Of course, the casualties of Wen Chou's sneak attack on Yu Jin and others are also included in it. If the more than 6000 people killed in that battle are subtracted, Zhang Yan lost more than 1 people in the battle of Cao's army, basically paying for it with one life. Cao Bing was killed.

Moreover, Zhang Yan's cavalry unit was also severely damaged. Now, there are two thousand cavalry in the entire Xuzhou army, which is already considered good.

Xuzhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou are not rich in horses. If you want to rebuild a decent cavalry unit, you must buy them from Liangzhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Jizhou.

Liangzhou is too far away from Xuzhou, and Jizhou is Yuan Shao's territory. Yuan Shao will definitely not sell his war horses to himself, and the only places where he can buy horses are Youzhou and Bingzhou.

Zhang Yan understands the importance of cavalry in the era of cold weapons, so he really wants to re-establish a cavalry unit.

Afterwards, Zhang Yan looked at the credit book written by Yu Jin, and he planned to reward him after returning to Pengcheng.

Putting down the battle report at hand, Zhang Yan immediately issued three military orders, asking Chen Ying, Niu Jin, and Xu Sheng to lead [-] soldiers each to occupy the three important river crossings of Qinting, Cangting, and Linyi to prevent Yuan Shao of Hebei.

Chen Ying, Niu Jin, and Xu Sheng received the order and immediately led troops to garrison.

Later, Zhang Yan made it easy for Chen Gui and Zhang Hong to discuss the post-war recovery of Yanzhou, and proposed that the current Shanyang prefect Bao Xun be the governor of Yanzhou to govern Yanzhou for him.

Chen Gui and Zhang Hong were very sure of Bao Xun's ability to govern the local area, and they did not object.

After that, Zhang Hong proposed to rebuild Puyang City, and made Puyang City a strategic location, laying a solid foundation for the future confrontation with Yuan Shao.

Zhang Yan felt that Zhang Hong's proposal was very good. After some discussions, he decided to use Puyang City as an important town to form Puyang County, and let Yu Jin, who was temporarily serving as General Fenwei, be the prefect of Puyang and lead his troops to stay in Puyang.In addition, the three counties of Lihu, Zhencheng, and Linqiu in Jiyin County were ceded, and they belonged to Puyang County together with the six counties of Baima, Yanxian, Fanxian, Dong'e, Linyi, and Gucheng.

In addition, Zhang Yan made Zhang Liao the prefect of Chenliu, Gao Shun the prefect of Jiyin, and Wei Xu the prefect of Chengwu.

Due to the lack of talents under Zhang Yan's tent, Zhang Yan facilitated Chen Gui and Zhang Hong's discussions, and decided to ban Rencheng State, Dongping State, Jibei State, and Lu State, and merge Rencheng State, Dongping State, and Lu State into Shanxi. Yang County merged Jibei Kingdom into Taishan County.

In this way, Shanyang County became a big county, and Bao Xun was appointed as the governor of Yanzhou and concurrently as the prefect of Shanyang, which shows that Zhang Yan attaches great importance to Bao Xun.

This series of orders were all written by Chen Gui in the form of official documents, and then stamped by Zhang Yan before they were released to the public.

In addition, Zhang Yan sent Zhang Hong to persuade Mao Jie and Li Dian who were imprisoned in the prison to surrender. Zhang Hong gladly took the order and left. After some earnest persuasion, Mao Jie and Li Dian were still unwilling to surrender.

Seeing that Mao Jie and Li Dian were unwilling to surrender, Zhang Yan wanted to show Mao Jie and Li Dian to beheaded.

After Yu Jin got the news, he immediately came to Zhang Yan and begged Zhang Yan to give him three days before he persuaded Mao Jie and Li Dian to surrender.

Zhang Yan agreed to Yu Jin's request, but did not deal with Mao Jie and Li Dian immediately.But Yu Jin took advantage of the only three days to go to the dungeon once a day, and persuaded him with emotion and reason. In the end, he didn't know what method Yu Ban used, Mao Jie and Li Dian actually surrendered. up.

Zhang Yan was very happy to hear that Mao Jie and Li Dian had surrendered. He asked Yu Jin how he persuaded them to surrender.

Later, Yu Jin asked Zhang Yan to keep Li Dian and Mao Jie by his side, saying that talents like them were needed to govern Puyang.

Without hesitation, Zhang Yan appointed Li Dian as the governor of Puyang County, and Mao Jie as the meritorious officer, and asked them to assist Yu Jin.

Yu Jin was very grateful, and after thanking him, he withdrew.

After Yu Jin left, Chen Gui said to Zhang Yan: "My lord, how can I get Yu Jin, Mao Jie, and Li Dian to be together? These three are all from Cao Cao's former army, and Yu Jin has a heavy army in his hands. If they have a different heart, Conspiring against each other, how should our army respond?"

"There is no doubt about employing people, and there is no need to doubt people. Ever since he surrendered to our army, Yu Jin has devoted himself to thinking about our army. I have never doubted him." Zhang Yan said.

Chen Yu said: "People's hearts are separated by belly, who knows what Yu Jin thinks in his heart? My lord, you must be defensive. I hope that my lord does not trust Yu Jin too much. After all, he is just a general, not the lord's direct line. My lord is too much. Given him a relatively large amount of power, I am worried that Yu Jin’s desire for power will become excessive in the end, and he will go to extremes. My son Chen Ying is stationed at Qinting, Niu Jin is stationed at Cangting, Xu Sheng is stationed at Linyi, Mi Fang is stationed at Baima, my lord You might as well distribute some of Yu Jin's military power to these four people, and they can also weigh each other. If Yu Jin really rebels, at least the lord can use these four people to restrain him. If Yu Jin is allowed to command all the troops alone, the power is too great. I'm afraid that these four people will be unable to restrain themselves."

After listening to Chen Gui's words, Zhang Yan thought for a while. Although he trusted Yu Jin very much, in order to avoid future troubles, he felt that what Chen Gui said was very reasonable.

Therefore, Zhang Yan specially dispatched Bao Shao as the captain of the river patrol, and led [-] troops to garrison the city. Using the river defense as an excuse, five soldiers and horses, namely Mi Fang, Chen Ying, Niu Jin, Xu Sheng, and Bao Shao, were formed into a special army. Zhang Yan is directly responsible for all military affairs of the river defense team, and has nothing to do with Puyang County and Yanzhou.

When everything was dispatched, Zhang Yan left five thousand soldiers and horses for Yu Jin, let Zhang Liao and Gao Shun each take two thousand, and he took the rest of the soldiers and horses back to Pengcheng.

In addition, Zhang Yan asked Chen Gui to write a memorial and sent someone to Chang'an to ask the emperor for the post of Zhendong General, and as Xuzhou Mu, he applied for the positions of Yanzhou Mu and Qingzhou Mu In addition, he also recommended Zang Ba as the governor of Qingzhou and general Yangwei, Bao Xun as the governor of Yanzhou, and the prefects of other counties also applied for them one by one, asking for the official canonization of the emperor.

Zhang Yan led the army to pass by Changyi, and planned to rest in Changyi for a few days, and also met Diao Chan who was arranged by him here.

The new governor of Qingzhou, Bao Xun, led his subordinates to wait for Zhang Yan's arrival at the gate of Changyi City. After seeing Zhang Yan's arrival, he led the crowd to bow to Zhang Yan: "See you, my lord!"

Zhang Yan said: "No courtesy."

"Thank you, my lord!"

Zhang Yan got off his horse, walked straight in front of Bao Xun, grabbed Bao Xun's hand, walked towards a place where no one was around, and then asked in a low voice: "How is the matter I told you going? "

"What the master is waiting for, the subordinates have already arranged it properly."

"You can take me with you when you enter the city in a while."

"Here!"

Afterwards, Zhang Yan and others entered the city in droves, and Bao Xun invited Zhang Yan and others to a banquet, but Zhang Yan was only concerned about Diao Chan and had no intention of drinking.After finally surviving the banquet, Zhang Yan and Bao Xun changed into casual clothes, took Tai Shici with them, and walked towards a manor house in the city.

This manor house is not too big, it is located in the south of Changyi City, when the group of people came to the gate of the manor house, the two servants guarding the door saw Bao Xun coming, and immediately stepped forward to greet him.

Bao Xun asked his servant to open the gate, and then he took Zhang Yan and Tai Shici into the yard together.

As soon as the three of them entered the yard, they heard the melodious sound of the piano coming from the backyard. Zhang Yan listened quietly for a while, only feeling that the sound of the piano was a bit sad, making people want to cry.

It can be seen that the mood of the person who plays the piano is sad.

Zhang Yan frowned, and under Bao Xun's leadership, he walked towards the backyard where the zither sound came from. The closer he got, the clearer the zither sound.

When he entered the backyard, he saw Diao Chan sitting alone in the gazebo in the yard, playing the piano with a sad face, his dark and bright eyes seemed empty, and even the expression on his face seemed a little lonely.

Seeing Diao Chan's appearance like this, Zhang Yan was stunned, not wanting to see Diao Chan even more sad than when he first saw him after only a few days.

He asked Bao Xun and Tai Shici to wait outside the courtyard, then took a big step and walked directly towards Diao Chan.

(End of this chapter)