Like Dong Zhuo, Zhang Yan is also a normal person.
A slightly smarter normal person with considerable political thinking and foresight.
A normal person who desires fame and fortune and changes the bad status quo.
While receiving the imperial edict from the Luoyang court to confer him the title of Pingbei Zhonglang General, Zhang Yan also received ten appointment documents for school captains. As long as Zhang Yan fills in the names on these documents, ten people can become his subordinates.
Directly under the command of the captain.
What's interesting is that the previous Luoyang court was indeed playing tricks. Even the appointment document was not a formal appointment document, it was not sealed, and it was not officially loaded into the treasury.
Therefore, all the lieutenants, generals and lieutenants appointed in the previous wave are not counted.
Zhang Yan could voluntarily annul those appointments and instead appoint ten people he trusted as captains to serve as his subordinates and command everyone in the mountainous area of Bingzhou.
At the same time, Zhang Yan, the Pingbei Zhonglang, will be able to gain the power to rule the entire Bingzhou mountainous area. His status is equivalent to that of a prefect, with a rank of two thousand shi. He even has the qualification to promote filial piety and integrity, and can enjoy border preferential treatment and recommend to the court every year.
A "filial piety".
Moreover, he can also arrange for the accountants to report the governance results to the court, accept audits and statistics from the court, have the opportunity to be promoted, and receive the same treatment as a normal court official.
For all these "rewards" from the court, Zhang Yan needs to show her sincerity.
For example, they must restrain their subordinates from invading prefectures and counties, follow the rules, and pay tribute to the court on time.
Moreover, his promise needs to be fulfilled.
He needs to join forces with Dong Zhuo to send troops to eliminate Guo Tai and his Baibo army, maintain local security, and cooperate with Dong Zhuo to govern Bingzhou and maintain its stability, so that Bingzhou cannot continue to be in chaos.
It would be best if it could also play a role in resisting foreign attacks from the border areas and serve the emperor.
The imperial court can no longer accept the continuation of the rebellion. The imperial court wants to end this war and recuperate.
Zhang Yan smiled after getting these things he had dreamed of.
His confidant Du Chang was also laughing with him.
"Now that you are a real official, does anyone dare to disobey your orders?"
Zhang Yan looked at Du Chang and slowly shook her head.
"This official position is not easy to come by. How many brothers have died in exchange for this official position? I can share the profit and profit with everyone, and this does not mean that the emperor of the Han family has recognized me from now on.
In his heart, I am still a thief."
"this……"
"So I need to make him understand even more. Want to destroy us? It's impossible."
Zhang Yan stood up, looked at the mountain peaks in the distance, and whispered: "This battle must be fought beautifully and fiercely, so that the Han army and the Luoyang court can be wary of us.
!Don’t dare to continue playing tricks on us!
We must always be vigilant and let them know that we are not household dogs, but tigers on the mountain. If they want to play tricks on us, the Luoyang court is not qualified!"
"The leader is wise!"
"You still call me leader?"
"This...oh! Zhang Zhonglang is wise!"
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Zhang Yan smiled proudly.
Then, he made appropriate arrangements.
While mobilizing his own troops to go south from Taiyuan County and approaching Guo Tai under the pretext of supporting Mrs. Guo, he also wanted to use the chess pieces he had prepared for a long time to create a center for Mrs. Guo!
Zhang Yan actually had to admit that Mrs. Guo was a capable person, she was single-minded and accepted death, and the people she led were quite convincing in terms of combat effectiveness.
Almost relying on his own bravery, he was able to fight back and forth with the generals of the Luoyang court and take advantage of them. As the war progressed, Zhang Yan heard that the senior officers of the Luoyang court had fallen.
Blood mold.
Before this war, General He Jin, Cavalry General Zhang Wen, Chariot General Liu Bei, Guard General He Miao, Former General Zhou Shen, Right General Dong Zhuo, and Rear General Huangfu Song, these seven people relied on the battle of Taiping Road
He stood out from the battle with Liangzhou and formed the senior officer corps of the Han Empire.
But after the Hedong crisis broke out, the later general Huangfu Song was beheaded, the hussar general Zhang Wen, the former general Zhou Shen were deprived of their posts, the general He Jin, and the Wei general He Miao were reprimanded. Among the seven, five of them had already killed them.
The general was defeated.
The senior officer corps of the Luoyang court was no longer in shape.
Now the right general Dong Zhuo who came up is a bit capable, but he can only fight Guo Tai at a 50-50 level. He can repel Guo Tai, and Guo Tai can counterattack him. The two have a tug-of-war, and based on the overall military strength
Judging from the situation, Zhang Yan believed that his side had the advantage.
As long as he and the Southern Xiongnu join forces to attack south, Dong Zhuo will definitely be no match, Hedong County will definitely be captured by them, and the Luoyang court will directly face their threat, and may even move the capital south.
Now it seems that among the seven senior officers, the truly capable one is probably Liu Bei, the cavalry general who defeated Xianbei and Diqiang not long ago.
In addition, Lu Zhi, the Taiwei in the Luoyang court, was also a capable man and once beat him to the point of fleeing.
If it weren't for these two people, Zhang Yan would really want to go to Luoyang to see what the palace looks like.
However, he has a clear understanding of his own strength and does not dare to make a big bet with Lu Zhi and Liu Bei. He prefers to give up when things are good. After gaining enough benefits, he will stop in time and not challenge Luo further.
The bottom line of Yang Chaoting.
In this regard, Yu Fuluo, the new leader of the Southern Xiongnu, had the same attitude.
Only Mrs. Guo insisted on fighting with the Luoyang court and both sides would lose.
If you are able to fight and are still so stubborn, I can only ask you to meet with your great sage teacher.
Zhang Yan's troops and the Southern Xiongnu Yu Fuluo troops who had gone to support Mrs. Guo had gone there with special missions. With a few orders, they could turn against them in an instant.
Two important generals under Guo Tai, Han Xian and Yang Feng, also resented Guo Tai because they were scolded by Guo Tai and almost killed. Wang Dang and Sun Qing, who were sent to lead the army by Zhang Yan, were attracted to them respectively.
Already.
The reason why they are still fighting now is to gain more bargaining chips for Zhang Yan. Now that the negotiation has been successful and everything has been settled, Mrs. Guo has no value in existing.
Let's all work together and send this one-minded fool to see Zhang Jiao!
This action took place in early April of the fifth year of Zhongping. When Liu Bei plunged into the construction of Liangzhou Prefecture School, Mrs. Guo's life also entered its final moments.
He originally thought that Zhang Yan sent troops to support him, so he was very excited and decided to launch a decisive battle, preparing to conquer Wenxi County in one fell swoop and march directly to the Yellow River.
What surprised him a little was that the Han army did not act like a coward this time. Instead, they reorganized their troops and went out of the city to fight in the field to fight him to the death.
He was very happy and decided to launch a regular decisive battle with the Han army to completely eliminate the Han army's garrison. However, when the war was ongoing, he found that the situation was completely different from what he had imagined.
The Han army attacked him.
The Bingzhou bandit army sent by Zhang Yan attacked him.
The southern Huns cavalry attacked him.
His generals Han Xian and Yang Feng also attacked him with their own soldiers and the troops they encouraged.
For a moment, everything he saw was enemies.
His Baibo Army headquarters had less than 20,000 men, and Han Xian and Yang Feng took away another 2,000 or 3,000 men. In the end, the Baibo Army of more than 15,000 people was divided, surrounded and annihilated by enemies several times his own.
It didn't take much time for Guo Tai to go from being stunned at the beginning to gnashing his teeth when he understood everything later. Seeing his troops falling apart, he knew that he would definitely die from this.
However, he will not accept the ending of dying in vain.
So he decided to launch a counterattack against Han Xian and Yang Feng, who attacked his headquarters the most fiercely.
These two despicable people actually rebelled from within!