On the same day, Zhang Yan led the army to continue to advance, and when he arrived at Chaoge, Wang Dang had already led the Montenegrin army to withdraw from Chaoge, and the people in Chaoge County City spontaneously organized together to welcome the arrival of the regent Zhang Yan outside the city.

That night, the army entered Chaoge County, and Zhang Yan sent people to take strict precautions to avoid Zhang Yan's way.

At noon the next day, Zhang Yan really came to Chaoge with the humerus of the Montenegrin army such as Yanggu, Zhang Fang, Sun Qing, Wang Dang, etc., everyone rode war horses, but they were naked, and everyone had thorns on their backs, which seemed to be sincere.

Zhang Yan and others came to Chaoge City, did not bring a soldier, nor did they carry weapons, they were taken to the county government hall, and as soon as the cadres saw Zhang Yan, they immediately knelt down and asked Zhang Yan and others to plead guilty.

Zhang Yan was also open-minded, and he didn't embarrass Zhang Yan, but only asked Zhang Yan if he surrendered sincerely. Zhang Yan replied yes, in order to show his sincerity, he even wanted to dismiss tens of thousands of Montenegrin troops, and in addition, he also changed his name.

Zhang Yan was originally not surnamed Zhang, but surnamed Chu, who was a general under Zhang Niujiao of the Yellow Turban Yu Party, after Zhang Niujiao died in battle, everyone recommended Zhang Yan to take over Zhang Niujiao's old department, and continued to take this group of mermaid officials to fight, for this reason, Chu Yan specially changed his surname to Zhang, called 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 the king and became a bandit, which is the origin of the Black Mountain thief.

Zhang Yan saw that Zhang Yan was very sincere, so he exempted him from the death penalty, demoted him to a commoner, and let his family move to Pengcheng to live together.

As for Langu, Sun Qing, Wang Dang and others, they will stay in Montenegro for the time being, after the army is dismissed. Let's listen to it again.

Zhang Yan was overjoyed. For Zhang Yan's magnanimity. Thank you very much. So, Zhang Yan took out the topographic map of the Taihang Mountains and dedicated this map to Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan took a look at the topographic map presented by Zhang Yan, which was very useful, on the topographic map, all the dangerous passes in the mountains were marked, and many sheep intestine trails were marked, passing through these sheep intestine trails. You can even go around the back of some passes.

The Taihang Mountains run through the north and south, and have a part of it in Bingzhou and Jizhou, and as soon as this topographic map is in hand, everything on the Taihang Mountain seems to be right in front of you.

It seems that Zhang Yan is a thief in the area of Taihang Mountain, and he really has no less effort, and he actually knows so much about the Taihang Mountain Range.

Zhang Yan accepted Zhang Yan's gift, and as a thank you, he rewarded Zhang Yan with 500 gold. Let him move his family to Pengcheng, and someone will arrange a place for him to live at that time.

Zhang Yan was grateful. Farewell to Zhang Yan, from then on, Zhang Yan ceased to exist, Zhang Yan resumed his surname Chu, in order to avoid Zhang Yan's "Yan" word, Chu Yan simply changed his name together, called Chu Sui.

Since Zhang Yan surrendered, Zhang Yan also avoided the need to meet each other, so he concentrated on staying and dealing with the aftermath of the Montenegrin Army.

In this battle, Zhang Yan's army also suffered a lot of losses, so he selected thousands of strong men from the Montenegrin army to replenish his troops. In addition, the rest of the people were all farmers on the spot, and Wei Qi was still appointed as the Taishou of Hanoi, Tai Shi Ci still stayed in Hanoi to garrison, and the three of Hu Gu, Sun Qing, and Wang Dang were all under Tai Shi Ci's account.

After dealing with the affairs of the Montenegrin Army, Zhang Yan led the army out of Hanoi, and asked Tai Shici to pay close attention to the movements of Bingzhou and Jizhou, and report it immediately as soon as there was any situation.

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

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

In this battle, within the jurisdiction of Zhang Yan, from the battle of Hedong to the return of Yuan's army to Hebei, a total of more than 96,800 enemies were annihilated, and more than 30,000 people were captured, Yuan Shao, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Gao Gan and others all died in this war, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Tian Feng, Fuhu and others were captured, and Hao Zhao, Wei Gu, Zhang Yan and others surrendered.

On the other hand, 38,600 were killed and more than 10,000 were wounded, and 368 officers at or above the rank of commander were killed, including 8 adjutant generals, 6 lieutenant generals, 14 staff generals, and 58 lieutenants.

Killing a thousand enemies and injuring yourself eight hundred, there is indeed some truth in this sentence.

Although Zhang Yan's army lost so many casualties, they won the victory, won the battle, and also established Zhang Yan's supremacy in the Central Plains, even if they did not completely destroy the enemy army, but gave the enemy army a heavy blow, at least for five years, Yuan's army will definitely not have any major military operations.

Zhang Yan asked Jia Xu to count the meritorious people, and after returning to Pengcheng, he would be rewarded for his meritorious deeds, and those soldiers who died in battle were also registered one by one, and they were rewarded with double pensions.

In addition, in order to make up for the lack of troops, Zhang Yan deliberately turned these 50,000 people into a regular army, transferred 30,000 of them to Qingzhou, and placed them under the command of the left general Zang Ba, while the other 20,000 stayed in Puyang and belonged to the right general Yu Ban, Chen Ying led the army back to Yingchuan, Li Dian's department continued to stay in Puyang, and Xu Chu, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun's headquarters all returned to their original stations.

Zhang Yan rode the dark clouds on the snow horse, took his own soldiers, and returned to Pengcheng first, in addition to the war, there is another thing that needs him to deal with very much, that is, to set up a new king.

Liu Xie died, the emperor of the Han Dynasty was gone, as the so-called country could not be without a king for a day, as soon as Zhang Yan returned to Pengcheng, he immediately began to support Liu Xie's son Liu Feng as the emperor.

Liu Feng was born to Liu Xie and Empress Yuan, and after Zhang Yan returned to Pengcheng, he first deposed Yuan as empress for treason, and was killed together with Cao Guifei, while Liu Feng was left to the care of his wet nurse.

Poor Liu Feng is less than a year old, he is still a baby waiting to be fed, what can he know, and how can he be an emperor?

However, Liu Feng was pushed to the emperor by Zhang Yan, and Zhang Yan still had the final say in the military and political affairs of the whole country, and continued to be regent as the king.

Since then, the Liu family has completely declined, and the emperor has become nothing.

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

When Yuan Shao was alive, there were many talents under the account, and people from all walks of life admired Yuan Shao very much, and now Yuan Shao died, and the people under the account died, the wounded, and the captured were captured, and Yuan Shao's three sons were not Cao Cao's opponents, if they fought with each other again, I was afraid that Cao Cao would take advantage of the situation and replace Yuan to become the lord of Hebei.

How things will develop, Zhang Yan can only wait and see, after all, he has just experienced a big war, and the strength of Yuan's army still exists, now is not the time to rashly attack Hebei.

At the same time, Zhang Yan was also ready to stabilize for a few more years, accumulate strength, and then expand his army vigorously, so as to capture Hebei and unify the north in one fell swoop.

Liu Feng is the emperor, because he is still young, so he did not hold the enthronement ceremony, Zhang Yan just issued a holy decree, the edict to the world, and at the same time this year continue to use the name of Jian'an for five years, 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 deeds and rewarded meritorious officers in the war. First of all, he created the post of generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, concurrently served by himself, and then crowned Zhao Yun as the general of Huwei and the marquis of Huaiyin County, Xu Chu as the general of Huben and the marquis of Qian County, Tai Shici as the general of Hulie and the marquis of Gaomi County, Xu Huang as the general of Huyi and the marquis of Xinyang County, Zhang Liao as the general of Huya, the marquis of Ruyang County, Yu Ban as the right general and the marquis of Changyuan County, and Zang Ba as the general of the left and the marquis of Gaotang County.

Among the seven people named by Zhang Yan, all of them added a "big" character to their original official positions, and rated their grades to be the same as those of the generals, all of which were positive grades.

Zhang Yan also promoted Gao Shun to the former general, named the Marquis of Sheyang County, Gan Ning as the general of Suiyuan and the Marquis of Fei Ting, and Lü Meng as the deputy general of Gan Ning.

In addition, Zhang Yan also crowned Jia Xu as General Wei and Marquis of Xiao County, and people such as Zhang Hong, Li Dian, Chen Ying, Lu Dai, Mao Jue, Kong Rong, Jia Kui, Wei Qi and others, all those who have meritorious service have been rewarded.

This time, Zhang Yan was awarded seven general positions at one time, and officially told the officers and soldiers of the whole army that as long as they made great achievements, they would be rewarded, which greatly stimulated the soldiers' desire for meritorious service.

When Zhang Yan and Yuan Shao faced off, Liu Biao of Jingzhou had been standing still, and Sun Ce of Jiangdong was embarrassed by Chen Deng's economic blockade, and he was so focused on developing the economy that he had no time to take care of the affairs in the north. It wasn't until the decree of the new emperor ascending the throne came that Sun Ce learned that Zhang Yan had defeated Yuan Shao.

The two strongest princes in the world had a duel, and as a result, Zhang Yan was victorious, Yuan Shao not only suffered a heavy defeat, but also lost his life on the battlefield, and the other separatists Shili then sent envoys to Pengcheng to congratulate the new emperor on his accession to the throne, and once again recognized Zhang Yan's overlordship.

On the third day of Zhang Yan's return to Pengcheng, the army returned one after another, and the four captives Tian Feng, Zhang He, Gao Lan, and Fu Hu were all taken to Pengcheng and guarded separately.

Zhang Yan sent people to persuade him, Zhang He and Gao Ran took refuge, Tian Feng did not surrender, and Frustrated Hu hesitated because his father was still in Hebei.

As a result, Zhang Yan immediately crowned Zhang He as the general of Dingyuan and Gao Ran as the general of Weiyuan, both of whom were crowned as the Marquis of Ting, and treated him very preferentially.

In addition, Zhang Yan sent people to persuade Tian Feng and Frustrated Hu to surrender again, Kan Ze went to be a lobbyist, with his three-inch incorruptible tongue, moved with affection, and knew with reason, Tian Feng has been unmoved, only seeking to die quickly. And Frustrated Hu was persuaded by Kan Ze to surrender sincerely.

So, Zhang Yan crowned Fu Hu as the general of Guiyi, the Marquis of Ting, and sent him to Hebei to persuade his father Fu Zhu to come to Pengcheng, and promised Fu Hu that once Fu Zhu arrived, he would let him be listed in Jiuqing.

Frustrated Hu was very grateful to Zhang Yan for his preferential treatment, so he embarked on the road to Hebei with a mission, and with the token given by Zhang Yan, the road was unimpeded.

Zhang Yan saw that Tian Feng did not surrender twice, so he decided to let people persuade Tian Feng again, and the person who persuaded Tian Feng to return to Shun 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!" (To be continued......)