The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 311 Chapter 310
On the same day, Zhang Yan led the army to continue marching. When they arrived at Chaoge, Wang Dang had already led the Black Mountain Army to withdraw from Chaoge. The people in Chaoge County all spontaneously organized together to welcome the arrival of the regent Zhang Yan outside the city. .

That night, when the army entered Chaoge County, Zhang Yan sent people to take precautions so as not to fall into Zhang Yan's way.

At noon the next day, Zhang Yan came to Chaoge with the humerus of the Montenegrin army, such as Xie Gu, Zhang Fang, Sun Qing, and Wang Dang. Looking at the thorns, it seems that there is sincerity.

Zhang Yan and others came to Chaoge City without any soldiers or weapons. They were taken to the county government hall. When they saw Zhang Yan, they immediately knelt down and turned to Zhang Yan and others. It's an apology.

Zhang Yan was also open-minded, and he didn't make things difficult for Zhang Yan, but only asked Zhang Yan if he surrendered sincerely.Zhang Yan answered in the affirmative. In order to show his sincerity, he wanted to dismiss tens of thousands of Black Mountain troops. In addition, he also changed his name.

Originally, Zhang Yan's surname was not Zhang, but Chu. He was originally a general under Zhang Niujiao's subordinate of the Yellow Turban Remnant Party. For this reason, Chu Yan specially changed her surname to Zhang, named Zhang Yan, to commemorate Zhang Niujiao.

At the beginning, the Yellow Turban had been pacified by the government, so Zhang Yan led this team to occupy the mountain as king and became a bandit. This is the origin of the Black Bandit.

Seeing Zhang Yan's sincerity, Zhang Yan exempted him from the death penalty, demoted him to common people, and let his family move to live in Pengcheng together.

As for Xi Gu, Sun Qing, Wang Dang and others, they will stay in Montenegro for the time being, and they will be used after the army is disbanded.

Zhang Yan was overjoyed, and was very grateful for Zhang Yan's magnanimity.So Zhang Yan took out the topographic map of the Taihang Mountains and dedicated it to Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan took a look at the topographic map provided by Zhang Yan, and it was very useful. On the topographic map, all the dangerous passes in the mountains were marked, and many small trails were marked. Passing through these small trails, you can even go around to the back of some passes.

The Taihang Mountains run from north to south, and there are parts in Bingzhou and Jizhou. Once this topographic map is in hand, everything on the Taihang Mountains seems to be right in front of you.

It seems that Zhang Yan really worked hard as a thief in the Taihang Mountain area, and he actually knows so much about the Taihang Mountain Range.

Zhang Yan accepted this gift from Zhang Yan, and as a thank you, he rewarded Zhang Yan with five hundred gold and asked him to move his family to Pengcheng. Someone will arrange a place for him at that time.

Thanks to Zhang Yan, he bid farewell to Zhang Yan. From then on, Zhang Yan ceased to exist, and Zhang Yan resumed his original surname Chu. In order to avoid Zhang Yan's "Yan", Chu Yan simply changed his name. Called Chu Sui.

Since Zhang Yan surrendered, Zhang Yan also saved the need to meet in battle, so he stayed on and dealt with the aftermath of the Black Mountain Army.

In this battle, Zhang Yan's army also lost a lot, so he selected thousands of strong men from the Black Mountain Army to supplement their strength.In addition, the rest of the people were farmers on the spot, and Wei Qi was still appointed as the prefect of Hanoi, and Tai Shici remained in Hanoi to garrison, while the three of them, Sun Qing and Wang Dang, all belonged to Tai Shici's tent. Listen to it.

After dealing with the affairs of the Black Mountain Army, Zhang Yan led the army to leave Hanoi, and asked Tai Shici to pay close attention to the movements of Bingzhou and Jizhou, and report any situation immediately.

In addition, Zhang Yan deliberately let Xu Huang's army stay in Henan to make up for the lack of troops in Henan.

After Zhang Yan and others returned to Puyang, news came from Zang Ba in Qingzhou that he had completely repelled the enemy, and the situation of the war with Yuan Shao was calculated.

In this war, within the scope of Zhang Yan's jurisdiction, from the battle of Hedong to the retreat of Yuan Jun's entire line to Hebei, more than a month before and after, a total of more than 800 enemies were wiped out, and more than 3 people were captured. Zhang He, Gao Lan, Tian Feng, Juhu and others were captured, and Hao Zhao, Wei Gu, Zhang Yan and others surrendered.

On the other hand, 600 people were killed in battle, more than 1 people were injured, and 360 and 14 officers above the army were killed, including 58 lieutenants, [-] Zhonglang generals, [-] generals, and [-] lieutenants.

There is indeed some truth in the saying that one thousand enemies are killed and eight hundred are self-injured.

Although so many people were killed in Zhang Yan's army, they won the battle and established Zhang Yan's dominance in the Central Plains. For at least five years, Yuan Jun will definitely not have any major military actions.

Zhang Yan asked Jia Xu to count meritorious persons, and was going to reward them for meritorious service after returning to Pengcheng, and those soldiers who died in battle were also registered one by one, and those who deserved rewards were rewarded, and double pensions were given.

In addition, in order to make up for the shortage of troops, Zhang Yan deliberately turned these 3 people into a regular army, transferred [-] of them to Qingzhou, and put them under the jurisdiction of the left general Zang Ba. Under Yu Jin's jurisdiction, Chen Ying led his troops back to Yingchuan, Li Dian's troops remained in Puyang, and Xu Chu's, Zhao Yun's, Zhang Liao's, and Gao Shun's troops all returned to their original camps.

Zhang Yan rode a black cloud and a snow horse, and brought his own soldiers back to Pengcheng first. Apart from the war, there was one more thing that he needed to deal with, and that was to set up a new king.

Liu Xie was dead, and the emperor of the Han Dynasty was gone. As the saying goes, a country cannot live without a king. As soon as Zhang Yan returned to Pengcheng, he immediately set out to support Liu Xie's son Liu Feng as emperor.

Liu Feng was born to Liu Xie and Empress Yuan. After Zhang Yan returned to Pengcheng, he first deposed Yuan's empress position for treason, and was killed together with Concubine Cao, while Liu Feng was handed over to the nurse.

Poor Liu Feng is less than one year old, and he is still a baby waiting to be fed. How can he be an emperor if he knows what?
However, Liu Feng was pushed out of the emperor by Zhang Yan, Zhang Yan still had the final say in the military affairs of the whole country, and continued to be the regent as the king.

Since then, the Liu family has completely declined, and the emperor is useless.

Originally, Zhang Yan could be called emperor, but he didn't, because the time was not right. Although Yuan Shao died, Yuan Shao's son was still there, and Cao Cao was also in Hebei. Cao Cao was far more terrifying than Yuan Shao.

When Yuan Shao was alive, there were a lot of talents in the tent, and all the talents admired Yuan Shao very much. Now that Yuan Shao died, the talents in the tent died, some were wounded, and some were captured. And Yuan Shao's three sons were not Cao Cao's. If the opponents compete with each other again, I am afraid that Cao Cao will take advantage of the vacancy and replace Yuan as the master of Hebei.

How things will develop, Zhang Yan can only wait and see. After all, he has just experienced a big battle, and Yuan Jun's strength still exists. Now is not the time to rashly attack Hebei.

At the same time, Zhang Yan is also preparing to stabilize for a few more years, accumulate strength, and then expand his army on a large scale, so as to capture Hebei and unify the North in one fell swoop.

Liu Feng is the emperor, because he is still young, so the enthronement ceremony was not held. Zhang Yan just issued an imperial decree to inform the world. At the same time, this year will continue to use the year name of the fifth year of Jian'an. On the first day of the first month of next year, it will be changed to the first year of Wude .

In addition, Zhang Yan also began to reward meritorious service, rewarding ministers who had made great contributions in the war.First of all, he created himself the post of Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses, which he concurrently held. Then he added Zhao Yun as General Huwei and Marquis of Huaiyin County, Xu Chu as General Huben and Marquis of Qiao County, and Tai Shici as General Hulie and Marquis of Gaomi County. , Xu Huang was General Huyi and Marquis of Xinyang County, Zhang Liao was General Huya and Marquis of Ruyang County, Yujin was General You and Marquis of Changyuan County, and Zang Ba was General Zuo and Marquis of Gaotang County.

Among the seven people granted by Zhang Yan, the word "big" was added to the original official position, and their rank was rated as the same as that of the general, and they were all first-rank.

Zhang Yan also promoted Gao Shun to be a former general, made Sheyang County Marquis, Gan Ning was made Suiyuan General and Fei Tinghou, Lu Meng was made Gan Ning's deputy general, and he was granted the title of admonishing doctor and first-class loyal and brave uncle.

In addition, Zhang Yan also granted Jia Xu the title of General of Wei and Marquis of Xiao County. People, all have rewards.

This time, Zhang Yan granted seven general positions at once, and officially told the soldiers of the army that as long as they made great achievements in battle, they would be rewarded, which greatly stimulated the soldiers' desire for meritorious service.

During the duel between Zhang Yan and Yuan Shao, Liu Biao of Jingzhou remained on the sidelines, and Sun Ce of Jiangdong was embarrassed by Chen Deng's economic blockade. He focused on developing the economy and had no time to take care of the affairs of the north.Sun Ce didn't know the news that Zhang Yan had defeated Yuan Shao until the imperial edict of the new emperor's enthronement came.

The two most powerful princes in the world had a duel. In the end, Zhang Yan won, and Yuan Shao not only lost miserably, but also lost his life on the battlefield. The other separatist forces sent envoys to Pengcheng to congratulate the new emperor on his ascension, and once again recognized Zhang Yan's overlord position.

On the third day after Zhang Yan returned to Pengcheng, the army returned one after another. The four captives Tian Feng, Zhang He, Gao Lan, and Juhu were all taken to Pengcheng and guarded separately.

Zhang Yan sent people to persuade Zhang He and Gao Lan to join him, but Tian Feng refused to surrender, and Juhu hesitated because his father Jushou was still in Hebei.

Therefore, Zhang Yan immediately conferred the titles of Zhang He as General Dingyuan and Gao Lan as General Weiyuan, both of whom were granted the title of Marquis of Ting, giving them preferential treatment.

In addition, Zhang Yan once again sent people to persuade Tian Feng and Juhu to surrender, and Kan Ze went to be a lobbyist. Just want to die quickly.But Juhu was persuaded by Kan Ze and sincerely surrendered.

Therefore, Zhang Yan added Juhu as General Guiyi, Tinghou, and sent him to Hebei to persuade his father Jushou to come to Pengcheng, and promised Juhu that once Jushou arrived, he would be included in the Jiuqing.

Juhu was very grateful for Zhang Yan's preferential treatment, so with a mission, he set foot on the road to Hebei, and with the token given by Zhang Yan, the journey was unimpeded.

Seeing that Tian Feng did not surrender twice, Zhang Yan decided to ask someone to persuade Tian Feng again, and the person who persuaded Tian Feng to surrender this time was Situ Yang Biao.

Yang Biao came to the cell, glanced at Tian Feng who was locked inside, and immediately said to the jailer: "Open the cell!"

(End of this chapter)