At dawn the next day, in Runan City, on the palace of the state capital, Chen Lin was sitting on the top seat, Zhang Ba and others stood in two rows, and there were three small officials kneeling below. Now Runan City has been controlled by Chen Lin, arrange Cai Yang and others to lead the army to patrol and defend the city, and maintain stability in the city, as soon as Chen Lin returned to Runan City, these three people ran out to meet, saying that it was the original petty officials in Runan City, Huang Shao failed to find them. At this time, I saw one of the three people: "General Chen, in the middle of the night, the Yellow Turban Thieves sneaked into the city, and Lord Assassin Shi and all the officials were captured by the Yellow Turban Thieves one by one, and many of those who resisted were beheaded, and now Lord Assassin Shi is probably also taken captive." ”

Sending three officials, Chen Lin asked everyone: "Now we can be regarded as recovering Runan City, but we have not rescued Lord Assassin Shi, and I have already told Lord Taishou overnight last night, before Lord Taishou's order arrives, what should we do, but it doesn't matter?" ”

Zhou Cang and Zhang Ba didn't raise their heads, they didn't bother to think about this kind of thing. I saw Gao Shun stand up: "My lord, I think that before the order of the Taishou army comes down, the army will only recuperate here, besides, my lord, I don't know what to do with the more than 300 captives, I hope the lord will make it clear?" Chen Lin was overjoyed when he saw someone speak, and hurriedly asked, "What should you think of it?" ”

Gao Shun responded again: "My lord, I think that these people are just a last resort, if the lord can give him a way to live, he will definitely be willing to be a people who guard himself." It is better for the lord to subdue it, think it is a righteous army, and treat it for meritorious service, and show the name of benevolence and righteousness of the lord. Chen Lin looked at Huang Yan, Huang Yan also nodded, and said to Gao Shun in response: "Since this plan is offered by Gao Shun, then Gao Shun is responsible for this matter. Gao Shun was the first person to recognize Chen Lin as the master, Chen Lin was somewhat trusting in his heart, and Gao Shun became the general who was in charge of the army alone after Huang Yan.

Chen Lin ordered, and the others all looked at Gao Shun with jealousy and envy, but Gao Shun himself's face was not shocked, and he stood up without changing his promise, and he couldn't see what reaction was in his heart. Chen Lin is very satisfied with this, this person is also what Grandpa said, he is upright and loyal, and he is trustworthy. As soon as the matter of the captives was over, Chen Lin asked again: "What else is there or what do you think?" Cai Yang stepped out and said: "Young Master, now there are more than 200 foot soldiers who can fight, are you recruiting righteous soldiers in this Runan City?" Chen Lin thought about it, and now there are only more than two hundred foot soldiers left, which is indeed inappropriate, so he said: "Well, you are responsible for this matter, and Uncle Zhong Zhi is there to assist." ”

This is Huang Yan's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Chen Lin saw it, so he ordered: "There is nothing else to do, everyone is dispersed, Yuanhua and Curie are patrolling the city, but there are those who violate the law, arrest them, and if they resist, they will be killed on the spot." So except for Huang Yan and Zhou Cang, the two guards commanders, everyone else withdrew and went to get busy.

Chen Lin said to Huang Yan: "Why does Huang Yan look like he wants to speak and stop? Huang Yan looked at it and replied: "Great young master, Fang Cai does have something to say, but it is inconvenient to say it." Chen Lin laughed and scolded: "Then you can always say it now, could it be that Huang Yan has something to hide from Young Master Ben?" ”

Huang Yan hurriedly said how dare he be, and said: "Young Master, that's the case, after capturing Runan City last night, Huang Yan accidentally found a place, which was the Yuzhou Iron Bureau. Speaking of this, Huang Yan deliberately stopped and looked at Chen Lin, Chen Lin subconsciously said: "It's empty, what do you say to me." As soon as Chen Lin finished speaking, he was stunned, thought of something, and screamed in a blink of an eye and grabbed Huang Yan's hands: "But the blacksmith among them?" The expression was pleasantly surprised.

Huang Yan smiled: "What the eldest young master said is right, Runan City is the seat of Yuzhou, there are iron officials, and some of the armor in Yuzhou is from here, after entering the city last night, I found that there were nearly 100 blacksmiths among them. Huang Yan also knew the value of a skilled blacksmith, and her expression was also proud. Chen Lin almost jumped up after hearing this, and asked again: "Then since Huang Shao can design and conspire with us, he must not be a layman, why can't he understand the purpose of this blacksmith, so he doesn't capture it?" ”

Huang Yan said with a smile: "The eldest young master doesn't know, when the Huang Shao thief entered the city, he attacked the official office but didn't know that there were several underground secret rooms in the official office, which were dedicated to the place where special swords and armor were placed, and the blacksmith was spared by hiding here, but now it is controlled by my guards." Chen Lin hurriedly asked, "Who else knows about this?" Huang Yan replied: "Except for the guards, even the second young master and the others don't know." Chen Lin clapped his hands and applauded, and said happily: "I'm going to be here for a few days, Huang Yan, you lead a hundred cavalry guards, no matter what method you use, you must secretly send this group back to Chenjiabao within two days, eat and drink well, even if you don't want to tie up, you have to tie it up, ask clearly, if you have a family, even the family will take it over, don't let others know." "The unhappiness of losing nearly 300 foot soldiers instantly replaced Daxi, nearly 100 blacksmiths, 30,000 simple knives can be made for Chen Lin within a year, Chen Lin no longer has to worry about the armor, as long as there is enough iron ore, he can't help but be unhappy.

The original officials of Runan City were either taken away or beheaded, fortunately, only some of the big families of the Shi clan suffered a lot, but many of them were only blackmailed with a little money and food, and now Huang Shao ran away, these big clans sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, Chen Lin didn't bother to entangle with these people, and simply withdrew from the Runan Mansion and gave it to these people who were desperately fighting for power. Chen Lin got Huang Yan to make a plan, took the opportunity to blackmail, and said to the big scholars in Runan City that the military food is insufficient and the military salary is insufficient, and I hope to get your support. Those people were not stupid, and seeing that Chen Lin did not want to fight with them for power, and wanted Chen Lin's army to defend the city for them, they united and donated two thousand troops of grain and grass for March and two thousand taels of gold to Chen Lin.

Cai Yang's recruitment of righteous soldiers in Runan City was not as easy as in Anyang, the people of Anyang County trusted Chen Lin, and most of the people in Runan City did not know who Chen Lin was, and Chen Lin's name was only circulated among the scholars, so Cai Yang recruited for three days before 70 people joined the army. Chen Lin saw that he simply ordered Cai Yang to stop, and put the seventy people into the foot soldiers, and there were three hundred foot soldiers. Gao Shun's recruitment of prisoners was unusually smooth, Gao Shun only said that those who surrendered would not be killed, and that they would be full after surrendering, and none of the three hundred people would want to stay. Gao Shun was in charge of the army at the beginning, and he also gave this foot soldier a name, called "trapped in the camp", Chen Lin went to Gao Shun's military camp twice, only to see 300 foot soldiers* practicing their lives, extremely strict, I don't know how to meet the battle in the future.

Huang Yan was busy dealing with the task assigned by Chen Lin, and suddenly Zhou Cang came in and said that Chen Guo had led four hundred people to five miles outside Runan City, and asked Chen Lin how he was. Originally, Chen Lin still wanted to use Chen Guotou and Huang Shao as an internal response, but he didn't want to capture Runan City in a daze. Chen Lin said to Zhou Cang: "Go and let Chen come over, to Zhang Ba and the others, it is said that there are strong people who abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and are willing to join the righteous army and contribute to the country. ”

Chen Lin and Zhou Cang came to the south gate of Runan City, and after a while, they saw a team of people and horses in front, among which there were more than a dozen cavalry in front, and the first person was Chen Guo, who had three swords. The reason why Chen Lin dared to let Chen Guo swagger was because there were not many people who had seen the three knives, and it happened to be in troubled times. Chen Lin was dressed in brocade clothes, with his hands buckled on his back, standing on the moat bridge, looking at Chen Guo and his party with a smile. Chen Guo saw a group of cavalry at the city gate from a distance, and one person dismounted and stood at the moment, I don't know who it was. When the distance was close, he saw that it was Chen Lin who was waiting for him personally, Chen Guo was moved in his heart, hurriedly dismounted and left the team, ran to Chen Lin, knelt down, and cried: "Young Master, Chen Guo is not worthy of being greeted by the Young Master in person." ”

Chen Lin picked up Chen Guo with both hands and said firmly: "Over the years, it is worth it for you to suffer." A gentle sentence made Chen Guo burst into tears again. Chen Lin looked behind Chen Guo and said with a smile: "Chen Guo, the soldiers and horses are very heroic." ”

Zhang Ba and the others heard that a team of people was coming to Runan, and they were about to hurry up to the city to check, but they saw Chen Lin approaching the city gate with a big man, and a team of people and horses behind him who had never seen before, everyone was puzzled. Chen Lin said with a smile: "This is the big leader Chen Guo who abandoned the secret and surrendered to the light, in the past, he was a corrupt official* and had to fall into the grass, but now he sees the Yellow Turban thieves openly rebelling, and he is willing to lead his troops to join my righteous army. Chen Lin said that in the end, he gave a stern order, Chen Guo knew that Chen Lin was afraid that he would be looked down upon by everyone, so he said this, and he was grateful in his heart.

Chen Linte picked up the wind for Chen Guo, except that everyone was not allowed to drink, and ate large pieces of fatty meat, in the military tent, Chen Lin: "Chen Guo, your three or four hundred people will be used as your subordinates, led by you." "No one thinks it's surprising for Chen Lin's appointment, because everyone knows that Chen Guo's 400 people can't be commanded. Gao Shun was stunned for a moment, and then understood the key, followed everyone to laugh, and said to Chen Guo: "General Chen, now you are the third independent army under the lord's account, and the lord treats you well." Gao Shun didn't know the relationship between Chen Guo and Chen Lin, and seeing that Chen Guo had a heavy army, he deliberately said this to improve Chen Guo's loyalty to Chen Lin.

Chen Lin saw Gao Shun like this, knew Gao Shun's intentions, and liked Gao Shun even more in his heart. Just as Chen Lin was laughing and laughing, suddenly the sergeant came to report and came to Cai. Chen Lin hurriedly withdrew from the banquet and asked someone to bring it in, and the person brought Zhao Qian's order. Chen Lin opened it and took a look, gasped, everyone asked urgently, Chen Lin showed it to everyone, it turned out that Zhao Taishou's order was not to ask Chen Lin to garrison Runan, nor to ask Chen Lin to go to Shangcai to help in the battle, but to order Chen Lin to quickly rescue Pingxing. Zhao Qian had a stalemate with Peng in Shangcai, Zhao Qian recruited the young and strong in Shangcai City, and ordered the large families of the city sergeants to donate to the nursing home to defend the city. Peng Tuo couldn't attack for a while, so he surrounded Shangcai with some soldiers and horses, and after Huang Shao went back, he beheaded the Lord of Yuzhou Assassin Shi to show off his might, Zhao Qian was frightened, and only firmly defended Shangcai. And Huang Shao suggested that Peng Tuo, leave soldiers and horses to surround Shangcai, and lead an army of 70,000 to attack Pingxing, and Zhao Qian lost more than 30 cavalry before sending this letter to Runan City.

Chen Lin hurriedly asked Huang Yan: "Huang Yan, how many military horses does the sergeant clan of Runan City have now?" Huang Yan: "Young Master, now the big families in the city have recruited young people, and it is said that there are nearly 2,000 people. Chen Lin thought about it, and then ordered loudly: "Lord Taishou has an order, you must not disrespect, our army can rescue Pingxing, where is Huang Yan." ”

Huang Yan responded: "In" Chen Lin said to Huang Yan: "Huang Yan immediately informed the city sergeant clan that our army would set off tomorrow morning to rescue Pingxing, and ordered them to strictly guard Runan City. Huang Yan responded and returned to the team. Chen Lin also ordered everyone to straighten out the military horses, and set off tomorrow morning and tomorrow, and everyone had to be ordered to retreat and prepare the military horses, just waiting for tomorrow's departure.