Chen Yan listened to the pity that the girl said, and inevitably moved his heart of compassion, and immediately said: "You were afraid of starving to death at the beginning, but now that you have arrived in Luoyang, we have settled a lot of people, why don't you sign up like the people, find a place to settle, and stay like this?" When the time comes, you will open up the wasteland and plant the land, and you and the army will harvest half of it, so why not? ”

Wednesday Niang heard Chen Yan make sense, and her eyes lit up all of a sudden, but she was still stumbling, and there seemed to be something unspeakable.

Before Chen Yan could ask a question, Zhang Yan hurriedly replied: "Heavenly Master, that's the case, our Yellow Turban Army has deserters who escape every day, and in order to prevent this kind of thing from happening, I gave an order, but if anyone wants to be a deserter and is discovered, they will be killed." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Yan lowered his hand and waited for Chen Yan to scold, but Chen Yan patted him on the shoulder and said: "That's it, General Zhang Yan's move is also because there are too many deserters in the Black Mountain Army, and he has to do it as a last resort, now that we have the territory in the pass, naturally we don't have to worry about the problem of recruitment, these old, weak, sick and disabled, and even female soldiers, not only do they have no effect on the battlefield, I'm afraid it will disrupt our rhythm, just let them go home." ”

As soon as these words came out, many people in the Yellow Turban Army cheered softly, but they didn't know if Chen Yan's words counted, so they didn't dare to be too public.

But there are still many veterans who shouted loudly: "We don't want to go home, we are willing to go to the battlefield for the Heavenly Master!" ”

Chen Yan hurriedly shook his head and said: "Your kindness Chen Yan understands, but you don't have to fight hooligans on the battlefield, not if there are many people, you must be powerful, we must pay attention to a consistent pace, if we are not in the same pace, when we go to the battlefield, not only will we die, but also affect the overall victory or defeat." ”

The soldiers of Montenegro heard it in a fog, they were all ordinary people, where had they heard of this, but they felt in their hearts that as long as it was said by the Heavenly Master, it must be correct.

Chen Yan paused for a moment and continued: "Let you go home, but it is not to let you be idle, there are many wastelands outside our Luoyang City waiting to be reclaimed, and there are even markets that have long been barren, you cultivate the land and farm, or buy and sell commercial goods, is to help our army become stronger, so that you can support the elderly, and our army can still prosper, why not?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Wednesday Niang was the first to jump to her feet and shouted: "Heavenly Master is right! ”

After that, the people in Montenegro didn't know whether they understood or not, and followed Zhou Niang and shouted: "Heavenly Master is right!" The Celestial Master is right! ”

Zhang Yan let out a clear whistle, interrupted everyone, and scolded with a smile: "Since the Heavenly Master is right, you still don't thank the Heavenly Master!" ”

The group immediately knelt on the ground and shouted, "Thank you, Heavenly Master." ”

The 300,000 people hulala fell to their knees all at once, the scene was really spectacular, Chen Yan hurriedly asked them to get up, and when he ordered his subordinates to come and screen the elite, send the old, weak, sick and disabled back to Luoyang, registered their household registration, and classified them into the people.

The screening work was really cumbersome, Chen Yan mobilized Huang Zhong, Xu Huang, Song Zhong and others to follow him to screen, but it still took about ten days to screen the 300,000 army into 190,000.

Nearly half of it was reduced at once, which shows how mixed this Montenegrin army was at the beginning, the oldest of them was sixty-two years old, almost in his prime, still holding a spear in the battle array, standing in the wind and trembling, but other people's spears were used to kill, and his spear was just a crutch.

Chen Yan was very puzzled that a veteran of this age could survive the battles again and again, which showed that this person's life was hard enough. The Black Mountain Army is an army that has fought with Lu Bu and Cao Cao, and the old people are intact after these three and five times, which is really an outlier!

Of course, there are not a few such legendary figures in the Montenegrin army, and Chen Yan really wonders how Zhang Yan led such a group of figures to stand in Montenegro for so long.

After tossing for a long time, he finally took the essence of it, removed its dross, and dismissed the people who were not suitable for the army and returned home, Chen Yan recruited some soldiers in Guanzhong, and made up enough 250,000 people, and divided them into a group of five people in the way discussed before, and they spontaneously promoted the captain, the chief, the centurion, and the thousand-commander, fortunately, Chen Yan and Guo Jia had already calculated it, and the progress of this work was very orderly.

After that, the army was trained separately, and the training effect was even more remarkable, and Chen Yan had a whimsical idea to hold a military exercise once a month, and the "God of War Competition" was carried out in units of 1,000 people, and all the people of the 1,000-person unit who won the victory could escape a month's military cultivation.

This idea has aroused unanimous praise from everyone, and everyone is eager to try, just waiting to win the first place.

On this day, Chen Yan and Guo Jia were sitting in the hall looking through the household registration list of the people of Luoyang, when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside, and a soldier hurriedly came over and shouted: "Mr. Jia Xu is back, Mr. Jia Xu is back!" ”

Chen Yan and Guo Jia hurriedly stood up, and before they went out, they saw Jia Xu rushing in with vicissitudes on his face, and said, "Lord, a good thing, a good thing!" ”

Chen Yan hurriedly asked, "What's the good thing?" ”

Jia Xu said: "Cao Cao somehow, the army moved eastward, Yanzhou City was instantly empty, listen to the scout report, at this time Xiahoudun was stationed in Puyang, Cao Hong was stationed in Xucheng, Zhang Miao Chen Palace sat in Yanzhou Prefecture, Xun Yu Chengyu guarded Juancheng, Yanzhou soldiers were less than 100,000, it was really a great opportunity!" ”

When Chen Yan and Guo Jia heard this, they both looked at each other and smiled, obviously knowing the news.

Jia Xu looked at the two of them, immediately understood, looked a little surprised, and asked, "Could it be that you already know about this?" ”

Chen Yan nodded, and Guo Jia said: "The lord seems to have ears and eyes in the Xuzhou area, and he has already heard that it was Tao Qian of Xuzhou who killed Cao Cao's father, so Cao Cao was eager for revenge and raised all the soldiers of Yanzhou to take revenge!" ”

Jia Xu obviously didn't expect Chen Yan to be so hand-eyed, so he immediately sat on the stool and said: "If I knew this, I wouldn't be in such a hurry to come back, there must be no problem with such well-informed news as the lord." Fengxiao, I'm afraid you've already contacted Lu Bu and Yuan Shu and prepared a three-way army to fight against Yanzhou, right? ”

Guo Jia shook his head and said: "Yuan Shu, I have indeed sent a letter to the past, but I have not contacted Lu Bu, Lu Bu is a wolf with ambitions, and he has an enmity with us, I think I am afraid he will not easily join forces with us, right?" ”

Jia Xu said: "I don't think so, although Lu Bu is ungrateful, he doesn't hold grudges, not to mention that he is already homeless at this time, how can Zhang Yang, who is just a wild king, tolerate his ambition?" This time the opportunity is rare, although Cao Cao poured out of the nest, but Puyang Xiahoudun has experienced a hundred battles after all, and there are Xun Yu, Chen Gong, Cheng Yu in Yanzhou City, these far-sighted and resourceful people are in charge, we and a stubborn Yuan Shu are obviously not enough to swallow Yanzhou. ”