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In this battle for Yanzhou, which lasted for more than half a month, Lü Bu was killed in battle, and his old department was completely absorbed by Zhang Yan.

Cao Cao was defeated and 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, and looking at the entire Yanzhou, there was no one who could compete with Zhang Yan.

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

Due to the suffering of the war, most of the people of Yanzhou dragged their families away from home to escape this unwarranted disaster.

The most serious are the three places of Dongjun, Jiyin County, and Chenliu County, which are the areas where Lü Bu and Cao Cao fought most frequently, and the people in the three counties were displaced and the fields were barren.

Taking Lihu as an example, Lü Bu and Cao Cao once fought fiercely here, and when both armies retreated from this place, there was not a single figure to be seen within a radius of dozens of miles.

In addition, Puyang, Zhencheng, Fanxian, Yongqiu and other places turned out to be ten rooms and nine empty.

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

Lü Bu was killed in battle, Cao Cao was defeated, and Zhang Yan was able to occupy Yanzhou, but it also fell on his shoulders the heavy task of rebuilding Yanzhou.

On the way back to Puyang from the Jiaocheng Ferry, Zhang Yan did not have the slightest smile on his face, but frowned tightly. How to rebuild Yanzhou. It's going to be what he's going to do next.

Cao Cao retreated to Hebei. The remaining Cao soldiers were almost killed by the Xuzhou soldiers, and when Zhang Yan led the army back to Puyang City, the battle was already over.

All the units returned to Puyang City one after another, and they all began to count the casualties of the war and report the combat exploits of their units.

That night, the battle situation of each department had been counted, and they first reported to General Yu Ban. Then because of the prohibition of uniformly accounting for casualties, as well as writing a list of combat merits, it was handed over to Zhang Yan for review.

Zhang Yan received the report of the forbidden war, and hurriedly glanced at it, and saw that it was clearly written that the number of dead in the battle of Puyang was 3,861, and the number of wounded was 2,182, and if the number of casualties in the previous battles was counted, after counting, there were also 18,073 people.

Other words. From the beginning of Zhang Yan's march into Yanzhou, until now. In total, 18,073 soldiers were killed, and more than 4,000 soldiers were wounded.

This kind of casualty cost is a bit too great for Cao Jun, who only has more than 10,000 people. Of course, the casualties of Wen Chou's sneak attack on Yu Ban and others are also counted, if you subtract the more than 6,000 people killed in that battle, Zhang Yanyu killed more than 10,000 people in the battle of Cao's army, basically one life against Cao Bing's life.

Moreover, Zhang Yan's cavalry troops have also suffered heavy losses, and now in the entire Xuzhou army, there can be 2,000 cavalry, which is already good.

Xuzhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou are not rich in horses, and if they want to reorganize a decent cavalry force, they must buy them from Liangzhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Jizhou and other places.

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

Zhang Yan understood the importance of cavalry in the era of cold weapons, so he wanted to reorganize a cavalry unit.

Afterwards, Zhang Yan looked at the merit book written by Yu Ban, and he was ready to return to Pengcheng and then discuss the meritorious deeds.

Putting down the battle report at hand, Zhang Yan immediately issued three military orders, asking Chen Ying, Niu Jin, and Xu Sheng, each to lead 2,000 soldiers, to occupy the three important river crossings of Qinting, Cangting, and Linyi to prevent Yuan Shao in Hebei.

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

Subsequently, Zhang Yan made it easy for Chen Qi and Zhang Hong to discuss the post-war recovery of Yanzhou, and proposed to let the current Shanyang Taishou Bao Xun be the assassin of Yanzhou and govern Yanzhou for him.

Chen Qi and Zhang Hong were very sure of Bao Xun's ability to govern the local area and had no objection.

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

Zhang Yan felt that Zhang Hong's proposal was very good, and after some discussion, he decided to take Puyang City as an important town and form Puyang County, so that Yu Ban, who was temporarily serving as General Fenwei, would be the Taishou of Puyang and lead the troops to stay in Puyang. In addition, the three counties of Lihu, Zhencheng and Liqiu in Jiyin County were ceded out, and the six counties of Baima, Yan County, Fan County, Dong'e, Linyi and Gucheng were jointly under the rule of Puyang County.

In addition, Zhang Yan asked Zhang Liao to stay too shou for Chen, Gao Shun to guard Jiyin too much, and Wei Xu to become a military commander.

Due to the lack of talents under Zhang Yan's account, Zhang Yan made some discussions with Chen Qi and Zhang Hong, and decided to ban Renchengguo, Dongpingguo, Jibeiguo, and Lu State, and merge Renchengguo, Dongpingguo, and Lu State into Shanyang County, and Jibei Kingdom into Taishan County.

In this way, Shanyang County has become a large county, and Bao Xun is not only the assassin of Yanzhou, but also the Taishou of Shanyang, which shows Zhang Yan's importance to Bao Xun.

This series of orders was written by Chen Qi in the form of an official document, and then stamped by Zhang Yan before it was issued to the public.

In addition, Zhang Yan sent Zhang Hong to persuade Mao Jue and Li Dian who were imprisoned in the cell, Zhang Hong happily accepted the order and left, and after some bitter persuasion, Mao Jie and Li Dian were always unwilling to surrender.

Zhang Yan saw that Mao Jie and Li Dian were unwilling to surrender, so he wanted to tell Mao Jie and Li Dian to behead the public.

After Yu Ban got the news, he immediately came to Zhang Yan, begging Zhang Yan to give him three days, he went to persuade Mao Jue and Li Dian to surrender, and if the two did not surrender, they would be at the disposal of Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan agreed to Yu Ban's request and did not immediately dispose of Mao Jue and Li Dian. And Yu Ban took advantage of the only three days, going to the dungeon once a day, knowing it with affection, moving and reasonable persuasion, Zuihou didn't know what method Yu Ban had. Mao Jue and Li Dian actually surrendered.

Zhang Yan heard that Mao Jue and Li Dian had surrendered. I'm very happy. asked Yu Ban how he persuaded these two people to surrender, Yu Ban said that it was an old acquaintance, so he answered Zhang Yan's question lightly.

Subsequently, Yu Ban begged Zhang Yan to keep Li Dian and Mao Jue by his side, saying that talents like them were needed to govern Puyang.

Zhang Yan did not hesitate, so he appointed Li Dian as the magistrate of Puyang County, and Mao Jue as Gongcao, so that the two of them could assist in the ban.

Yu Ban is grateful. After some thanks, he withdrew.

When Yu Ban left, Chen Jue said to Zhang Yan: "How can the lord let Yu Ban, Mao Jue, and Li Dian be together?" These three people are Cao Cao's old troops, and Yu Ban has heavy troops, if they have a bad heart and rebel together, how should our army respond? ”

"There is no suspicion in employing people, and there is no need to suspect people. Since Yu Ban surrendered to our army, he has been thinking about it for the sake of our army. I never doubted him. Zhang Yan said.

Chen Qi said: "People's hearts are separated from their stomachs, who knows what Yu Ban thinks in his heart?" Lord. The heart of defense is indispensable, I hope that the lord does not believe in Yu Ban excessively, after all, he is just a general, not the lord of the lineage, the lord has given him a relatively large amount of power, I am worried that Yu Ban zuihou power desire is overly inflated, and it will go to the extreme. My son Chen Ying is stationed in Qinting, Niu Jin is stationed in Cangting, Xu Sheng is stationed in Linyi, and Mi Fang is stationed in Baima, the lord may wish to divide Yu Ban's military power to these four people, and they can also weigh each other, if Yu Ban really rebels, at least the lord can use these four people to restrain him, if Yu Ban is allowed to command all the soldiers and horses alone, the power is too great, I am afraid that these four people will not be able to suppress it. ”

After listening to Chen Qi's words, Zhang Yan thought about it, although he trusted Yu Ban very much, but in order to prevent future troubles, he felt that what Chen Qi said was also very reasonable.

Therefore, Zhang Yan specially dispatched Bao Shao as the captain of the river patrol, led 2,000 troops to garrison the city, and on the grounds of river defense, let Mi Fang, Chen Ying, Niu Jin, Xu Sheng, and Bao Shao, the five soldiers and horses, form a special river defense team, and all military affairs are directly responsible for Zhang Yan, and have nothing to do with Puyang County and Yanzhou.

When everything was dispatched, Zhang Yan left 5,000 soldiers and horses for Yu Ban, let Zhang Liao and Gao Shun take 2,000 each, and he brought the rest of the soldiers and horses back to Pengcheng.

In addition, Zhang Yan asked Chen Jue to write a letter and sent someone to Chang'an to ask the Son of Heaven for the position of General Zhendong, and as a pastor of Xuzhou, he applied for the position of Yanzhou Mu and Qingzhou Mu, in addition, he also recommended Zang Ba as the Qingzhou Assassin and Yang Wei General, Bao Xun as the Yanzhou Assassin History, and the rest of the counties were also applied for one by one, asking for the official canonization of the Son of Heaven.

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

The new Qingzhou Assassin Shi Bao Xun led his subordinate officials to wait for Zhang Yan's arrival at the gate of Changyi City, and after seeing Zhang Yan's arrival, he led the crowd to bow to Zhang Yan and said: "See the lord!" ”

Zhang Yan said: "No courtesy." ”

"Thank you, lord!"

Zhang Yan turned over and dismounted, walked straight to Bao Xun, grabbed Bao Xun's hand, walked towards a place where there was no one on the side, and then asked in a low voice: "How did I do the things I told you?" ”

"The matter of the main bus has already been arranged by his subordinates."

"You'll take me with you when you're in the city."

"Whoa!"

Subsequently, Zhang Yan and others entered the city, and Bao Xun invited Zhang Yan and others to a banquet, but Zhang Yan was concerned about Diao Chan and had no intention of drinking. finally survived until the end of the banquet, Zhang Yan and Bao Xun changed into casual clothes, took Tai Shici, and walked towards a village courtyard in the city.

This village is not big, located in the south of Changyi City, when the group came to the gate of the village, the two family members guarding the door saw Bao Xun coming, and immediately stepped forward to greet them.

Bao Xun asked the family to open the gate, and then took Zhang Yan and Tai Shici into the courtyard together.

As soon as the three of them entered the courtyard, they heard the melodious sound of the piano coming from the backyard, Zhang Yan listened quietly for a while, only to feel that the sound of the piano was a little sad, which made people feel like crying.

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

Zhang Yan frowned, and under the leadership of Bao Xun, he walked towards the backyard where the sound of the qin came from, and the closer he got to it, the clearer the sound of the qin became.

When he entered the backyard, he saw Diao Chan sitting alone in the pavilion in the courtyard with a sad face, his dark and bright eyes looked hollow, and even the expression on his face looked a little lonely.

Zhang Yan was stunned when he saw Diao Chan like this, he didn't want to see Diao Chan for just a few days, Diao Chan was even more sad than when he saw it for the first time.

He asked Bao Xun and Tai Shici to wait outside the courtyard, and he took a big step and walked directly towards Diao Chan. (To be continued......)