The meeting between Tai Shici and Zhang Yan was not very long, because the bottom had been explained in advance, and this meeting was just to confirm the specific requirements and conditions.

The outcome of the talks was gratifying, Zhang Yan and the six leaders he had brought with him were completely overwhelmed by Liu He's sincerity and the bright future he had sketched out for hundreds of thousands of people in the Montenegrin army, and they really did not expect that Liu He was going to give them more than they could have imagined.

Liu He promised to assign Dingxiang County and Zhao County of Jizhou to the Black Mountain Army, although these two counties are currently not under Liu He's control, but Dingxiang County is only a hundred miles away from the newly built Jining City in Youzhou, if Liu He wants to take it, as long as he says hello to the Xiao cavalry guards and Youyan Army stationed on the western front, he can take it in less than half a month. As for Zhao County, the location is even better, it is close to the middle of the Taihang Mountain, if the Black Mountain Army gets here, it can connect the mountains with the plains, and when the time comes, they can advance and retreat freely, and they will not have to worry about food and clothing.

Although Liu He was generous to others and assigned the two counties that Yuan Shao now controlled to the Montenegrin Army, he also had a long-term plan after careful consideration.

First of all, the land of these two counties belongs to two states, not only nearly thousands of miles apart, but also across the towering Taihang Mountains in the middle, the troops in the Montenegrin army are mostly homeless people from Jizhou, Liu He took out Dingxiang and Zhao County, and he was able to let the merger of the state return to the state, and the return of Jizhou to Jizhou, and suddenly divide the Montenegrin army into two parts. Moreover, Liu He is so divided, neither Zhang Yan nor several of his subordinates can find any reason to oppose it. People have homeland complexes, and if Liu He makes such an arrangement, the Montenegrin army will also welcome it. The bottom line of Zhang Yan and others is just to be able to live in a county, and now Liu He has given them two, although they are not connected, they can't be too greedy, right?

Secondly, although Zhao County is relying on the middle section of Taihang Mountain, it will be easy for them to rely on the mountains to eat the mountains if they are placed here in the future. It's not easy to govern and control, but if you think about it from another angle, even if the thousands of miles of Taihang Mountain are not controlled by the Montenegrin Army in the future, there will be other forces hiding in it, doing some things to block the road and rob money, and occupy the mountain as the king. Liu He generously gave the Montenegrin Army a flat land to support the mountain, which could not only stabilize the current Montenegrin Army, but also pave the way for the future control of Taihang Mountain through the Montenegrin Army.

From the perspective of the superiors, using a "good" bandit roadlord to deal with the emerging bandit roadlord forces that may breed in the future not only saves time and effort, but also fights poison with poison. In Liu He's opinion. No one is born willing to give up the stable and comfortable environment on the flat land, but they like to stay in the reckless mountains with jackals, tigers and leopards, unless the environment on the flat land is more dangerous than the mountains and forests, and people have to flee into the mountains to hide in order to survive. The Montenegrin Army is just a deformed group in this troubled era, and except for a very small number of hundreds of thousands of people who are heinous and evildoers, most of them will definitely not stay in the mountains for another day if they can return to live and settle down on the flat land.

In addition to giving the Montenegrin Army two pieces of territory, Liu He also reserved three battalions of regular army establishment for the Montenegrin Army, and this battalion was not the battalion-level establishment in the later "army divisions, brigades, regiments, and battalions". Rather, it is similar to the military-level establishment of the Jizhou Zhenwei Battalion and the Zhenwu Battalion. Liu He helped Zhang Yan think of the names of the three battalions, which were called Feiyan Battalion, Beiwei Battalion and Zhenze Battalion, among which the Feiyan Battalion naturally took care of the feelings of Zhang Yan, the leader of the Montenegrin Army, while the Beiwei Battalion was mainly based on mountain and jungle operations. The Zhenze battalion mainly fought on rivers and lakes.

If one battalion is allocated according to 20,000 people, three battalions are 60,000 people, which is enough for nearly 500,000 Montenegrin troops. Once the three battalions were formed. In the future, Liu He will have to provide military salaries and provisions, but he must really eat military rations.

Liu He is so generous, of course, he doesn't want to be wronged. In his opinion. Although the overall combat strength of the Montenegrin Army is not as good as that of the Fifth Army of Youzhou and the two battalions of Jizhou, it saves time for training and reorganization, and saves 60,000 young and strong laborers for Youzhou and Jizhou. The problems that can be solved with money are not a problem, Liu Dagongzi has not much else, after occupying the great northeast in the future, the grain can definitely be managed, and the silver money does not need to be too thick, as long as a few more mines are opened, and the captive northern Hu people are stuffed into it and dug hard.

In addition to promising to help the Montenegrin Army solve the problem of territory and army establishment, Liu He also promised to solve the identity problem for the leaders of the Montenegrin Army when the time is ripe, that is, to wash away the identity of the Montenegrin rebels for them, and let the court canonize them as officials, so that they and their descendants can stand up and be human beings, and no longer be poked in the back.

This point is the most impressive to everyone in Montenegro, no one wants to carry a disgraceful identity into the coffin, and they are not willing to feel ashamed of their ancestor's identity when they mention it to future generations. Everyone has a sense of shame and more honor, even if Liu He only gives them a false position in the future, it will make these rebels feel that they are glorious and have realized their original ambitions in life.

Of course, there is no free lunch in the world, and Liu He's offer to the Montenegrin Army is based on the fact that the Montenegrin Army must first come up with a sincere surrender. If the Montenegrin Army only thinks about taking advantage, but refuses to make a desperate effort, and even wants to make profits between Liu He and Yuan Shao, then I am afraid that they have failed the good intentions of the eldest prince, and such an opportunity will never come a second time.

Although it takes time and effort to encircle and suppress the Montenegrin army, as long as Liu He controls the entire north of the Yellow River and makes up his mind to come to a "Taihang Suppression of Bandits", then within three years, Liu He is confident that the 500,000 Montenegrin people in the Taihang Mountains will only have some residues left. In less than ten years, the Montenegrin Army will disappear forever in the Taihang Mountains.

Any reactionary force has always been a dead end in the face of the vast sea of people's war.

In order to show the sincerity of cooperation, when Zhang Yan returned to the mountains, Tai Shici asked people to transport 5,000 sets of armor from the direction of gall pottery, as well as a batch of solid grain, which was regarded as a "deposit" to Zhang Yan. Whether he can get the follow-up payment depends on how Zhang Yan will mobilize the brothers from the nine mountains and eighteen villages under his command to go to Bingzhou to cause chaos for Yuan Shao after Zhang Yan returns to the nest.

If the Montenegrin army was upset and took advantage of the empty strength of Jinyang to seize this important town, it would not force Yuan Shao to send troops back to help, but force Yuan Shao to come back and work hard.

Liu He paid a deposit to the Montenegrin Army, but did not let Zhang Yan make any "receipts" on his side. According to the usual practice of covenants in this era, in fact, Liu He and Zhang Yan had to exchange hostages with each other, and even relatives close to him, but obviously Liu He did not have such a habit. It is impossible for Liu Dagongzi to take his father as a hostage like Liu Bang, and it is impossible to send the little baby Liu Xiang to Montenegro, even if he is willing, it is estimated that Zhang Yan will not dare to accept it. After years of operation, Liu Hezhongnuo's reputation for honesty has spread throughout the state, which is better than any kind of proton.

A few days later, Zhang Yan returned to the old nest, and Du Yuan and Sun Qing looked at the house well, and there was no chaos. In order to send troops to annex the state as soon as possible, Zhang Yan left behind the six leaders of the villages who went to Jishui with him, and then sent people to the northern mountains of Taihang Mountain and the southern mountains near Hanoi to liaise and convene the leaders of the villages to discuss major matters.

Although it is inevitable that there will be a lot of people, and it is not even ruled out that someone will secretly inform Yuan Shao of the news, but Zhang Yan is not worried about this, because there is a saying in the art of war called "a soldier who surrenders without a fight", and the task given to him by Liu He is to attract part of Yuan's army to return from Hedong to aid Jinyang, but there is no restriction on what method Zhang Yan takes. As for Yuan Shao, he will turn his face with the Montenegrin Army after he knows it, this is not a problem, when did Yuan Shao, a nobleman from a famous family, give the Montenegrin Army a good face?

When Zhang Yan returned to the mountain and was busy convening his subordinates to discuss matters, Tai Shici, who returned to the gall, was not idle. According to the information received recently, there seems to be a conspiracy between Chun Yuqiong and Gao Ran, the left-behind generals of Yuan Shao in Yecheng, and Tai Shici's analysis is most likely aimed at Zhang Yang in Hanoi.

Wei County is close to the Yellow River, south of Yanzhou's Dong County, and west of Bingzhou and Sili Hanoi County, Yuan Shao had previously sent troops from Neihuang to Liyang into Hanoi, only to be defended by Zhang Yang at Luchang Mountain, and finally returned. That time, Zhang Yang was just concentrating on defending the eastern front, and Luoyang also sent part of the Shenxi army to reinforce, and this time Zhang Yang needed to defend the eastern front, the middle line and the western front, and Luoyang was unable to send too many troops to reinforce Zhang Yang because of the possible changes in Guanzhong, so the situation facing Zhang Yang was very critical.

Liu He mentioned Hanoi and Luoyang in his letter to Tai Shi Ci, but did not put any pressure on Tai Shi Ci, but only reminded him to pay close attention to the movements of the Yuan army left behind in the direction of Wei County, and if conditions permit, appropriately dispatch the Zhenwei battalion to force Chun Yuqiong, so that the Yuan army on the Jizhou side did not dare to make any big moves.

Liu He only pointed out a direction for Tai Shi Ci, but the specific arrangement of troops was completely decided by Tai Shi Ci, which gave Tai Shi Ci enough room to play and display. Liu Heyuan was in Jicheng, and it was impossible for him to grasp the situation in Jizhou in time, and it was undoubtedly a wise move for him not to interfere in the specific actions of various armies.

After careful consideration, Tai Shici decided to launch a surprise attack, not only to deter the Yuan army in Jizhou, but also to remind Zhang Yan who had returned to Montenegro. (To be continued......)