Although Liu Xun was beheaded, he still had more than 20,000 troops outside the city, and if he couldn't integrate all of them in time, he was afraid that they would make a rebellion because of Liu Xun's death.

Zhang Yan asked Xu Huang to go to Liu Xun's military camp with the holy decree, mainly for two purposes. First, Mei Cheng was arrested for the crime of conspiracy and brought to justice on the spot. Second, all Liu Xun's subordinates were incorporated.

But Zhang Yan was a little uneasy, so he asked Li Dian and Mi Fang to lead 20,000 people each, in the name of training, to move to the left and right sides of Liu Xun's camp respectively, if these people showed signs of rebellion, immediately besieged!

However, the so-called holy decree is both true and false.

Because this holy decree was drafted by Zhang Yan, not by Liu Xie, the son of heaven, it can basically be regarded as an edict, so it is fake.

However, the holy decree is stamped with the seal of the heirloom jade seal, which also proves his authenticity. Theoretically, this decree is true.

Xu Huang didn't care whether this holy decree was true or false, he happily accepted the order, and after taking the holy decree, he immediately went out of the main hall, ordered a hundred elite horsemen, and went directly to Liu Xun's camp.

As soon as Xu Huang left here, only Zhang Yan and Lu Meng were left in the hall over there, Zhang Yan ordered someone to loosen Lu Meng's ties, and immediately asked: "A manly man, born in troubled times, should carry a three-foot sword, and make immortal meritorious deeds." I see that you are also a good man, I wonder if you are willing to join my army and serve me? ”

After hearing this, Lu Meng was extremely excited, and immediately hugged his fists and said: "I have heard that the general is famous for a long time, and now the general is inviting him with all his might, if the sinners refuse, they will be too ignorant!" Sinners can serve in the army of the Great General. It's really a blessing for three lives. If the general does not dislike it. Lü Meng was willing to be the general's pawn. Lead the horse for the general and follow the work of dogs and horses! Just ......"

"Just what?" Zhang Yan thought that Lu Meng was going to reject him, so he hurriedly asked.

"It's just that the criminals still have a group of brothers, they are all fellow villagers with the criminals, and their parents and brothers also died under the brutality of Yuan Shujun, and they also have a part in this robbery of the prisoner car. They are also, like the sinners, have long admired the general. I also want to join the army of the great general and serve the great general, I wonder if the great general can pardon them as he forgives my sins? ”

"Haha...... It's easy to do. I don't just want to pardon them, I want them to join my army with you. By the way, how many people are there? ”

"About 200 people, but I don't know too much now, because everyone is scattered, I heard General Xu say. He was accompanied by the rest of the generals, and it is not known if they are still alive......"

"That's it......" Zhang Yan thought for a moment. Then he said, "I will give orders to the other generals, tell them not to embarrass your brothers, and you go and gather all your brothers together, count the number of people, and see how many are left, and then come back here and tell me, I will put you together, give you official positions, and you will lead them, how about it?" ”

"Thank you, General, the sinners are grateful!" Lu Meng said happily.

Zhang Yan nodded, waved his hand and said, "Then you go and handle this matter!" ”

"Whoa!"

Lü Meng turned around and ran towards the outside of the hall, and Zhang Yan immediately summoned a few scouts and asked them to inform Xu Chu, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others, telling them not to kill, and if they caught someone, they would all be brought back to Shouchun.

Outside Shouchun City, Xu Huang took a hundred elite horsemen, held the holy decree, and came to the front of Liu Xun's camp proudly.

Xu Huang reined in the horses, did not go in, but stopped at the gate of the camp, and then shouted at the inside of the camp: "The holy decree has arrived!" Let Mei Cheng come out to receive the order! ”

The soldier immediately relayed the news to Mei Cheng, who was asleep in a daze, and dreamed that several beautiful women were waiting for him. When he suddenly heard that the holy decree was coming, his face immediately showed a hint of surprise, thinking that something good was coming, so he hurriedly put on his armor, took three steps and made two steps, and soon came to the gate of the camp.

Mei Cheng saw that Xu Huang had already turned over and jumped off the horse, and was standing in front of the gate of the village, and several soldiers behind him were all majestic. As soon as he came out of the village, he immediately knelt in front of Xu Huang, and said loudly: "Descend to Mei Cheng, kneel and listen to the holy decree!" ”

Xu Huang opened the holy decree and immediately read it: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said, today to investigate Liu Xun and Mei Cheng, gather the disciples, conspire to rob Yuan Shu, the crime is extremely evil, according to the law, behead ......"

Mei Yuan's heart was still beautiful, and suddenly when she heard the content of this holy decree, her face changed color, and when she heard the word "chop", her heart suddenly "chuckled", this is to kill him. Without waiting for Xu Huang to finish speaking, he didn't say a word, immediately stood up, pulled his legs and ran towards the camp.

When Xu Huang saw that Mei Cheng was about to run, he immediately pulled out the steel knife he was wearing, and shouted at Mei Cheng: "Where are the rebels and thieves fleeing!" ”

Before the words fell, the steel knife came out of his hand, Xu Huang threw the steel knife directly, and the steel knife roared and stabbed at Mei Cheng, who had just run out two or three steps, but when he heard Mei Cheng's scream, the sharp blade directly pierced Mei Cheng's body, and stabbed Mei Cheng's heart, and the whole person fell to the ground with a bang, blood flowed, and he convulsed a few times, and then he died.

Almost all the soldiers in Liu Xun's camp saw this bloody scene, their faces were all shocked, they didn't know what was going on, and because they were afraid, they clenched the blades in their hands one after another, and they already had the psychology of precaution.

Xu Huang walked to Mei Cheng's corpse, directly pulled out the steel knife that stabbed into Mei Cheng's body, and then wiped the blood stains on Mei Cheng's clothes, and then put the knife into the sheath.

"Everyone in there listens to me!" Xu Huang stood majestically at the gate of the camp, took a deep breath, and shouted loudly to the camp, "Liu Xun and Mei Cheng gathered the disciples and looted the prisoner car of the rebellious minister and thief Yuan Shu, and wanted to re-establish Yuan Shu. This is a heinous crime, and it should be punished! But the sin is only in Liu Xun and Mei Cheng, and it has nothing to do with you, so you don't have to worry about being afraid. From today on, all of you will be merged into the general's account, and everything will be at the disposal of the general, if anyone dares to have a heart of disobedience, Liu Xun and Mei Cheng will be the end! ”

Most of Liu Xun and Mei Cheng's henchmen were in the camp, and they suddenly heard that Liu Xun and Mei Cheng were dead, and they originally wanted to gather a crowd to rebel. Avenge Liu Xun and Mei Cheng. But not yet, before they can act. I saw the smoke and dust billowing on both sides of the camp, and the dull footsteps came from far and near, and everyone looked over, but they saw Zhang Yan's two well-equipped and neat armies slowly coming, and the army was full of swords and guns, bows and crossbows, and flags were dense, which looked so imposing!

See this. Liu Xun and Mei Cheng's henchmen didn't dare to move anymore, there were more than 100,000 troops gathered here, and they only had 20,000 people, and even if they were instigated to rebel for Liu Xun and Mei Cheng, there might not be many people. Since Liu Xun and Mei Cheng are dead, and the rest of the people are not guilty, why should they struggle meaninglessly?

As a result, the officers at all levels in the camp spontaneously gathered together. After some deliberation, it was decided that all of them would be submissive to Zhang Yan's subordinates.

Subsequently. The officers walked out of the camp one after another, ordered the soldiers to lay down their weapons one after another, bowed in front of Xu Huang, and expressed their willingness to submit to Zhang Yan's subordinates.

Xu Huang saw that the matter had been satisfactorily resolved, and his heart finally landed. At first, he still hung a heart, worried that Liu Xun and Mei Cheng's henchmen would make trouble, and he only had a hundred horsemen, and if he really fought, he would definitely fall into a heavy siege. Therefore, he did not enter the camp, but made a decree outside the camp.

Of course, Xu Huang didn't know that Zhang Yan sent troops to threaten, and when a group of officers knelt in front of him and expressed their willingness to submit to Zhang Yan's subordinates, Xu Huang breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly admired Zhang Yan's thoughtfulness.

Xu Huang went back to report to Zhang Yan, and Zhang Yan immediately ordered Xu Huang to temporarily take over Liu Xun and Mei Cheng's subordinates, and then reward them after returning to Pengcheng.

At noon, Xu Chu, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Chen Ying returned to Shouchun one after another, and they tossed around, but they did not find a single robber, and after the robbers were responsible for luring them away, they returned to the cave where they had gathered, and when they learned that Lü Meng had been taken away, everyone waited anxiously there.

Later, Lü Meng returned to the cave, met with his brothers, and said that he would lead them to defect to the general's subordinates, and everyone cheered.

There were a total of 220 of them, and in the cave, 20 people were killed by Xu Huang, and the remaining 200 people followed Lu Meng back to Shouchun.

After Lü Meng saw Zhang Yan again, he reported the exact number of people he had brought, and Zhang Yan made Lü Meng the Marquis of Qu Army, responsible for commanding these two hundred people, and temporarily incorporated them into Gao Shun's subordinates.

A day later, Zhang Yan convened the generals to discuss the return of the class teacher. Due to the importance of Huainan, Zhang Yan changed Jiujiang County to Huainan County, with Liu Ye, a counselor, as the Taishou of Huainan County, and Shangshu Lu Su as the Taishou of Lujiang.

In addition, instead of losing troops in this battle, more than 90,000 surrendered troops were surrendered one after another.

The army of 90,000 is not a small number for Zhang Yan, if it is all absorbed, with his current strength, he will definitely have more than enough but not enough strength.

Due to his repeated campaigns, the money and food were consumed very quickly, and once the 90,000 army was absorbed, he was really afraid that his financial resources would not be able to support it for long. In addition, He Yi, Liu Bi, and He Man also have an army of 50,000, adding up to a total of 140,000 people.

140,000 people, in today's period of population scarcity and low productivity, is undoubtedly a large number of very haode labor force.

After some discussions, Zhang Yan and Jia Xu prepared to reduce the army, turn a large part of the people into militia, and carry out tuntian.

Therefore, Zhang Yan ordered Zhang Liao and Gao Shun to select 20,000 strong people from the 90,000 army to form a regular army, and the remaining 70,000 people, all of whom became militiamen, on the basis of not occupying people's land, reclaimed barren land in the area of Shaobi and Chaohu Lake, and carried out tuntian.

The so-called militia means serving the people when the farm is busy and being a soldier when the farm is slack, and training while farming.

Zhang Yan made an agreement with the 70,000 militiamen who carried out Tuntian, and no longer provided them with military salaries, and only received 20% of the annual land endowment, and the remaining 80% were all owned by them privately, and the affairs of Tuntian and the 70,000 militiamen were all managed by Liu Ye.

In addition, Zhang Yan sent Zhang Liao and Gao Shun each with 10,000 troops to Xunyang and Anhui counties in the Lujiang River to garrison.

In addition, Zhang Yan took Xu Huang as the general of the tiger wing, led the Taishou of Runan, and was responsible for commanding the 50,000 troops of He Yi, Liu Pi, and He Man, and carefully selected 10,000 strong men from them, and the remaining 40,000 became militia in the same way, returned to Runan, and carried out Tuntian, while He Yi, Liu Pi, and He Man all belonged to Xu Huang's subordinates.

In this way, about Zhang Yan selected 30,000 elite soldiers from the 140,000 army, and the rest were all tuntian.

In addition, Zhang Yan also exempted the people of Huainan County, Lujiang County, and Runan County from paying taxes for one year, and vigorously encouraged the people to farm.

After being busy with these things, Zhang Yan led the army and returned to the court.

After Zhang Yan returned to Pengcheng, the Son of Heaven ordered Yang Hong, Han Yin, Yuan Yin, and Yuan Shu's family, who followed Yuan Shu's rebellion, to be beheaded for public display.

After that, Zhang Yan played the Son of Heaven and rewarded those who had made meritorious contributions to quelling the Huainan Rebellion.

As a result, Xu Huang was officially crowned as General Huyi, Zhang Liao was General Huya, Xu Chu was General Huben, and the rest of Jia Xu, Lu Su, Liu Ye, Yang Xiu, Gu Yong, Chen Deng, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Gao Shun, Chen Ying, Li Dian, Lu Dai, He Yi, Liu Pi, He Man and others were rewarded in money according to different merits.

In addition, Zhang Yan promoted Tai Shi Ci to General Hulie.

In this way, Zhang Yan is only one person away from forming the Five Tiger Generals, and Zhang Yan has been looking forward to getting another general...... (To be continued......)