Following the tradition of the Han Dynasty, each county held a military exercise every year, called it the "City Test".

The county soldiers came from men who were 23 years old and above the age of 23. They had to serve in the county soldiers for one year and act as officials, knights, disciples, etc. The county magistrate was presided over, and the commanders, chiefs and lieutenants from each county were also to participate.

The Guanglu Kai Ling stipulates that all subjects who should be subjects will be removed from the list if they are not allowed to take the test site. The test is a rare opportunity for a county to gather armed forces.

The test was originally held in August, and later, in order to avoid the gathering of troops influencing the autumn harvest, it was held until September.

Now, in order to make a hasty move, Li Yan hurriedly tried to advance the city, which caused the soldiers stationed in the eastern part of the county to guard against thieves and refugees to come, and only gathered more than 3,000 people to attend the schoolyard in the northwest corner of Yecheng.

But it was also very lively. Li Yan was wearing a yellow silk garment, and was decorated with dragons, tigers and red lords on the military chariots. He was equipped with axes and flags behind him. He drove four horses in front, and drums, singing chariots and singing chariots in the back. The Ximen family of the county gongcao led the chariots in front, and five cavalry were divided into left and right parts, building banners (qǐ) and planting feathers.

Because of his outstanding performance, Ma Yuan, who was appointed as the "military fake Sima", was also among them. Behind him were more than a hundred "brave young men in the city" gathered in a hurry, among which many of the subordinates of the fifth reunite who had scattered their lives. Because the incident was rushed, Li Yan did not care about screening the personnel one by one.

Ma Yuan reminded Zang angrily: "Li Yan planned to hijack the county magistrate with his confidants during the capital trial, the Ximen family of Gongcao in the city, and the head of the Li family of Wu'an who served as the supervisor of the thieves."

In Li Yan's plan, as long as these three were solved, major events would be expected. After all, the county soldiers were nominally the imperial army, but in fact, they had long been infiltrated by local tyrants.

Ma Yuan planned to surprise Li Yan and others, and a mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole behind them. They will head straight for Li Yan later.

With the rumbling drum beats and horizontal plays of the songs, Li Yan arrived on the high platform of the schoolyard and was quite nervous when facing the county soldiers with varying quality. They were busy with theoretical construction after the event, but the foundation among the county soldiers was not reliable enough. They could only control by temporarily appointing their confidants as the army Sima. I don’t know how much Ma Yuan, Yan Chun and others could do it in just a few days.

The content of the trial exercise varies from place to place. In Jingyang County, the battles of buildings and ships are often practiced, while cavalry patrols and blockages are used in the north, while Wei County has a lot of fun.

Li Yan sat in the shooting room, and asked his personal cavalry officers to stand with halberds and clamp the line. The soldiers and chariots were camping on all sides to block the retreat. The officials were wearing armor and stepped forward. The team was led by Yan Chun, with hundreds of people holding crossbows and carrying arrows. It seemed to be aimed at the target on the open space. In fact, with Li Yan's order, they would aim at the right side of the platform.

The subordinates of the commander, Gongcao Ximen family, the thief Li family and others stood there. They were powerful factions in the county, but they looked ordinary at this moment.

The confidant sent the token. After Li Yan picked it up, he felt that it was a huge pound. More than ten years ago, Zhai Yi, the prefect of Dongjun next door, was also trying to make an appointment, achieving great success, holding all opponents hostage and conquering several counties. Although he failed in the end, he was also a good example.

"I just hope that I can succeed today! Then I will use county soldiers to jointly manage Ting County, defeat the governor of Jizhou, and then make Liu Ziyu the emperor, and send a letter to each county, so that half of Hebei can get it."

But Li Yan threw the token heavily on the ground and threw the card into a number: "Do it!"

"Take it!" Ma Yuan immediately spoke, Zang Nu held the flag on the side of the hub, and at this moment he waved the flag. Everyone behind him wanted to rush to the stage to kidnap Li Yan.

"Take it!" When he said that, Yan Chun, who was appointed as the "General of the Assistant Han" by Li Yan, immediately took his subordinates to turn the crossbow...

But what everyone never expected was that these crossbows did not aim at the target on the right side of the platform, but instead looked straight at the county chief Li Yan!

Yan Chun's scream broke: "Li Yan wants to rebel, but he still won't surrender!"

Li Yan was stunned, but saw the cavalry officers who were holding halberds and clamping their hands all turned their fingers, and instead began to arrest Li Yan's loyalists. The county magistrate on the right side of the high platform, Ximen, and Li immediately avoided it. The dress they were wearing was actually armored clothes.

This was indeed a long-planned mutiny, but Li Yan, who thought he was a hunter, suddenly became prey.

At this moment, Ma Yuan and others who rushed to the edge of the high platform were blocked and returned, but Yan Chun pointed at Ma Yuan and shouted loudly.

"This person is the revival general of Han established by Li Yan, so you must not let him run away!"

...

When Geng Chun and his hundreds of cavalry followed the officials from the Zhangshui Ferry to drive a boat to send them across the river and approach Yecheng, they saw this chaotic scene.

The soldiers of Wei Cheng County were divided into three parts: those loyal to Li Yan were working hard to protect the county magistrate, and those who rebeled Li Yan and the county magistrate, the Ximen family joined forces to surround Li Yan with an absolute advantage in their troops.

There were also Ma Yuan's few hundred people, who were blocked by the fire and could not hijack Li Yan. Ma Yuan could only capture Yan Chun who was coming to take him with great momentum, and gathered his troops to seize the military chariots as a base. While hiding from crossbow arrows, people were making people shout.

"I am the dead room sent by the new Wei Cheng Dayin into the city!"

For a moment, Geng Chun didn't know which side he should fight, so he could only take the cavalry from afar and finally seized the opportunity and inserted into the battlefield obliquely, blocking the road that Li Yan wanted to retreat to Yecheng under the escort of his personal guards.

In fact, Geng Chun would be fine if he didn't block it, because the gate of Yecheng had been closed long ago, and the head of the city was arranged by the powerful Ximen family, so Dumen refused to let Li Yan retreat.

Li Junyin, who had originally planned to rebel against the new Han Dynasty, became a turtle in a jail and was finally captured by Geng Chun. This made the powerful Wei Cheng, who had unknown identity, control the county soldiers to confront him. Both sides distrust each other and refused to put down their weapons.

Until the fifth reunion, which was "full of wisdom and strategy", arrived in Yecheng, I saw this ridiculous scene.

Although the fifth person is full of "How Fat Four", he has to pretend to be as good as he expected. He smiled at Zhiting and said, "It's true that it's in my plan."

The farce ended after the soldiers from Zhiting County entered the venue and the fifth reunion issued an edict. This year's test was really intense. Many people were watching the fun at the top of Yecheng City and the north bank of Zhangshui.

Wang Lang, who originally planned to enter the city to be a "Liu Ziyu", also stood by the Zhangzhou side and stared at the scene in a daze. Then he didn't care about his father Wang Kuang's life or death, and immediately turned back to Handan!

...

When he was escorted to the court envoy, he looked up and found that Wang Kuang said, "Wang Lun, who was full of evil deeds, was hindered by nature", has now transformed into the fifth reunion. And Ma Yuan was actually sent by him, and Li Yan suddenly realized.

"I have also heard that the fifth Lunboyu attacked the Huns. As expected, both wise and brave. It was a blessing for Wei Cheng to take over me as the county magistrate."

Although Li Yan failed to rebel for three years, he still cared for the local people and was also known as the wise and great minister. One reason for the rebellion was that the Grand Master Xi Zhongjing Shang could not afford to pay the food and fodder.

Now that he is arrested, he is very good at saying that he is about to die. He only looks at the Simen family who came to visit the fifth family. Li and others said, "I have been in charge of Wei Cheng for ten years. Haoyou is quite intimate and helps me manage the county and do everything. But now those people have repeated it over and over again, and thousands of county soldiers immediately have different flags. My lessons must be learned from the fifth county magistrate!"

Isn't it necessary to absorb it? The county soldiers said they were soldiers of the court, but in fact they were infiltrated into powerful private soldiers. Today's incident told Li Yan and the fifth reunion who was the real master of Wei Cheng?

The thief Li Neng came to pay his respects to the emperor, "We have already sent people to the Jizhou Governor to blame Li Yan for his illegal act, but he has not responded for a long time. He can only report directly to the emperor through the tribesmen in the court. He had to give Li Yanxu a thief first, but now he has finally hoped for the imperial soldiers!"

It turned out that you reported Li Yan. The fifth relationship was clear. In this way, it was not easy for him to tamper with the report to the court, turn white into black, and it was not easy for him to tie the two families into accomplices.

What's more, the thousands of people on the opposite side were not decorations, and the soldiers of Zhiting County, the most powerful one, relying on Zhiting County, was not a good person. On the way, Zhiting's subordinate order directly told the fifth replies to Zhiting that this time, Zhiting sent troops and mobilized troops, and they could not bear the food and fodder themselves, right? After the fifth replied Yecheng, he should take responsibility and leave the warehouse to make the soldiers full of food.

What if I don't agree?

The fifth conjecture was that the soldiers of Zhiting County might stab him, or immediately turn into bandits on their way back, plundering things far beyond their "reward" in Wei Cheng territory and then return to Puyang.

This is not a king's army, it is simply a mercenary!

If Wei Cheng, the powerful man in front, was a wolf, and the Zhiting soldiers in the back were evil tigers. The fifth reunion seemed to have taken Li Yan, but in fact he was still dancing on three eggs.

So the fifth reun whispered to Zhiting's order: "Wei Chengguo repeatedly struggled to control it. In order to avoid the chaos, he hoped that the order would lead his soldiers to watch them outside the city."

When meeting with local tycoons such as Ximen and Li, Di Wulun first praised their righteous deeds, saying that he would ask for merit from the court, and then whispered: "The soldiers in Zhiting County are from other places after all. Since they crossed Baimajin, their military discipline has been bad. Now they have come to the wealthy land of Yecheng, and they have the desire to plunder. I hope that the soldiers of the county and the clans confronted them with each other to protect Yecheng and your families and other families with a complete wealth!"

After stabilizing these two forces, the fifth reunion asked Geng Chun to stare outside, while he and Ma Yuan entered the city and captured Li Yan's remaining confidants.

Ma Yuan has been in Yecheng these days and is very familiar with this place, and he knows what Li Yan is loyal to him.

"Li Yan's planner is the king of the Buzhe, so you must not let him run away."

After Ma Yuan arrived at the county government with the fifth reunion, he found that there was a fire here. Under the siege of the powerful people in the city, many of Li Yan's confidants were killed in battle, and the culprit Wang Kuang, the initiator, also stabbed himself to death.

I don’t know, did he calculate his ending?

They had only had time to save Wang Kuang and did not care about burning prophecies and divinations. It was indeed full of good or bad luck for ministers Wang Mang, and each had its own dates. Such as the Grand Tutor Tang Zun and the National Master Liu Xin, they were all above, and they were not good things.

But after searching for a while, there was no name for the fifth reunion.

"I look down on me." Di Wulun smiled and looked around, but saw a line of strange Yanwen, suddenly mixed in.

"Jingchu is about to rise, and Li is the auxiliary?"

Jingchu, Li, what he said was that he had just completed the transaction with him and sent many skilled blacksmiths to the Li Tong family in Wancheng in the fifth mile, right?

He sent someone to control the arsenal and granary, but found that there was not much surplus grain in the granary, and even the hard work that the fifth reunion promised to give to the soldiers of Zhiting County was not enough!

And at this moment, Geng Chun sent someone to inform Di Wulun: "There is an accident outside the city!"

When the fifth reunion returned to the city gate again, they saw that the Ximen family, the clan of the Li family had already pulled the big carts of food and fodder to "reward" the soldiers of Zhiting County, and even generously took out wine and meat, saying that they wanted to share the worries of the fifth reunion.

The Zhiting family, who had benefited, talked and laughed with them, and the two sides were happy. The fifth relationship plan made the situation of "guarding each other and checking and balancing each other" disappear, leaving only a nest of snakes and rats.

As a mercenary, whoever gives food to you will be the mother. The fifth reunion is not their boss, so it is difficult to call the order again.

"I'm careless."

The fifth reunion thought it was not good. He wanted to use the power of the soldiers of Zhiting County to eliminate the powerful people in Yecheng in one fell swoop and divide their wealth and granaries. It seemed that he had failed. He was in Weicheng County, so he was afraid that he would face a wise and powerful man who looked quite like Zhang Chun.

He could only look at his ex-Yin, who was determined to rebel, but he didn't even notice that his nest was full of his former son.

"Li Yan, you are not wronged to lose."

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ps: Happy New Year, Chapter 2 is at 13:00.
Chapter completed!