Seeing this scene, Lu Chen immediately sent a general to explain the situation to the city lord of Yingzhou City, they were here to exterminate An Lushan's rebels, not to capture their city.

When the soldier said their 'intention', there was still no reaction in Yingzhou City. The gates were still closed, and it was clear that the people in the city did not believe what the soldier had just said.

In desperation, Lu Chen could only take out the holy decree given to him by Tang Xuanzong, and then sent another soldier to take this holy decree appointed by Tang Xuanzong on it, and rushed to Yingzhou City.

After seeing the content of this holy decree, the city lord of Yingzhou City finally slowly opened the city gate. Moreover, he respectfully welcomed Lu Chen into the city. The prestige of the imperial court is still very influential in this area, at least not like the Central Plains generation, which was affected by the An Lushan rebellion. Lu Chen guessed that it might be someone from this side, and he didn't know how critical the situation in Datang was. Otherwise, even if Lu Chen came with Tang Xuanzong's holy decree, I am afraid that the city lord would not let him enter the city.

The city lord welcomed Lu Chen all the way into the city lord's mansion, and then saw him ask with a puzzled face, "General Lu, Weichen looked at what the holy decree said, Your Majesty is asking you to sneak attack the cities around Chang'an City." Why did you come all the way here? ”

Hearing this, he saw Lu Chen shook his head lightly, and said with a smile, "In the area of Chang'an City, General Ben has captured three cities one after another, but it still hasn't changed the situation in Datang today." Therefore, His Majesty gave me another secret edict. As for the content of the secret edict, I can't reveal it yet, I hope the city lord can understand."

The general laughed, such a confidential matter naturally cannot be said easily. This point, Wei Chen's heart still understands. The general is here, what are his next steps? I wonder if Wechen can help the general? ”

Hearing this, Lu Chen smiled slightly and said, "The city lord has already helped us a lot if he can open the city gate for this general." In the future, we will help the city lord to protect Yingzhou City, and the city lord can rest for a while."

After hearing Lu Chen's 'polite' words, he saw that the city lord's face turned pale, and he begged, "General, please don't remove Weichen's official position!" Weichen didn't make a mistake, and please show mercy to the general's subordinates! ”

Hearing this, he saw that Lu Chen shook his head, helped up the city lord who was almost about to kneel, and said with a smile, "The city lord don't worry. General Ben also came here on the orders of the imperial court, and he will not covet your position as the lord of the city. The reason why we want to take over the city is only to better defend against the enemy forces that may appear in the future. Rest assured, as long as this great battle is over, we will leave this city."

After hearing Lu Chen's assurance, the city lord nodded helplessly. After all, now the army of people has entered the city. Even if he didn't agree, he couldn't help it. Of course, he did not regret his previous decision to open the city gates. If he hadn't opened the city gate before, with the other party's strength, I'm afraid it wouldn't take long to capture Yingzhou City, and at most it would have been a waste of time. But by that time, the young general in front of him would probably not be so easy to speak.

Although he was very reluctant in his heart, he handed over the control of the city to the young general in front of him. But he also understands that the current situation is no longer for him. Thinking of this, the city lord of Yingzhou City no longer hesitated, and immediately called several generals of the city defenders and officials who handled the city's government affairs.

After seeing that most of the main officials had come over, the city lord of Yingzhou City introduced Lu Chen to everyone, "This is General Lu who came from the imperial court, from now on, he is the city lord of Yingzhou City, and you must obey General Lu's orders in the future." ”

Hearing this, these officials and generals looked at each other with shocked expressions. Subsequently, an official boldly asked, "I don't know why the imperial court wants General Lu to take over as the city lord of Yingzhou City?" ”

"You dare to question His Majesty's order today!?" Before Lu Chen could speak, he saw that the city lord next to him had already reprimanded loudly. In fact, he was afraid of angering Lu Chen, in case Lu Chen killed them all in anger, I am afraid that no one would avenge them.

However, after hearing this person's inquiry, Lu Chen did not feel the slightest annoyance, but explained with a smile, "General Ben is only temporarily stationed here, as for the reason, I can't say it yet." But you'll find out in a few days. Besides, if I have any thoughts about this city, you can't resist it, and the more than 30,000 elite soldiers outside the city are not decorations! ”

Hearing Lu Chen's slightly threatening words, these people's hearts were shocked. The person who asked before hurriedly saluted and said, "It's the lower official who is reckless, and I ask the general to forgive me."

Subsequently, the city lord handed over his official seal and many government affairs to Lu Chen to deal with.

After the handover, Lu Chen immediately handed over all these government affairs to Lin Lao and asked him to find someone to deal with these government affairs. Lu Chen didn't know anything about this. Of course, Lin Lao can't deal with these trivial matters all the time, and Lu Chen still wants him to be his military advisor. If Lin Lao's energy is all to deal with these miscellaneous matters, how can he still have time to give himself advice?

In the next few days, Lu Chen successively replaced nearly two-thirds of the generals and officials in the city. After all, those previous officials were all cultivated by the city lord, and it was impossible for them to be loyal to Lu Chen.

These generals of the city defenders were all selected by Lu Chen from under his hands. As for the officials who handled government affairs, they were selected by Lin Lao from within the city.

After this big change, Lu Chen believes that most of the officials in the city should support him. Because Lu Chen made it clear that the term of office of these officials was only valid during the period when he was in charge of Yingzhou City. In other words, as long as Lu Chen is defeated or retreats for other reasons, when the time comes, the original city lord and those old officials will regain control of Yingzhou City.

Therefore, these newly appointed officials, only if Lu Chen keeps Yingzhou City in control, will they have officials to do.

After dealing with the problems in Yingzhou City, Lu Chen did not waste too much time in this city.

Instead, they continued north to occupy other cities. And Lu Chen's large-scale invasion, as expected, quickly alarmed the actual controller of this area, the Xuanwu Army.

The city of Yingzhou occupied by Lu Chen is the southernmost city of the Xuanwu Army's Jiedu Envoy Force. And almost all of his troops were stationed in the vicinity of Bianzhou City. Therefore, even if he knew that there was an army on his territory that was invading on a large scale, it still took a few days to wait for the army to arrive here.