In the following half month, Li Xun's main energy was focused on the reorganization of the army and military layout.

The army of Jiangnan was almost wiped out. Zhao Qiankun finally collected less than 3,000 remaining troops. Before Zhao Bai'an died, his last wish was to send his body back to his hometown of Hedong Road to return to his roots. Therefore, after the war, Zhao Qiankun did not return to Jiayan City, but protected his father's body and went directly to Hedong.

When the imperial guards left Fengjing, there were 30,000 troops. They first fought Cheng Xisi in Hedong. Although they were defeated, the losses were not large. In addition, Yan Yi gathered some local troops in Hedong, so after the war, the overall number of troops increased to more than 33,000.

Afterwards, Zhao Xun decided to fight against Lingnan. Huang Hui and Kou Xiong led tens of thousands of imperial guards to the south, joined forces with Zhao Bai'an, and sent troops to Lingnan.

The Lingnan War was very smooth in the early stage, thanks to Zhao Baian's military wisdom and talent. However, due to his character flaws, an unnecessary strong attack caused heavy losses to the imperial guards. This immediately caused a huge conflict between the imperial guards and the Jiangnan team. The two sides began to be hostile and suspicious of each other, which greatly weakened Zhao Baian's strength, so that in the end, Zhao Baian excluded the imperial guards out of selfishness and defense, which eventually led to a crushing defeat. A large army of 20,000 in Jiangnan team was wiped out.

The final decisive battle would have been another ending without Li Xun's strength turning the tide and the desperate resistance of many imperial guards such as Huang Hui, Kou Xiong, and Yan Yi, the victory or defeat of the war might have been another ending, but the imperial guards also paid an extremely heavy price for this. After the war, Li Xun asked someone to count the number of people, more than 30,000 troops, but in the end, there were only 10,000 left.

An army of ten thousand people will definitely not be able to maintain the stability of the entire Lingnan Road, and the court is currently powerless and has no choice but to discuss this. After Li Xun discussed with Huang Hui, Kou Xiong and others, he could only rely on the power of the captive camp. Using troops is the key to using generals. Choosing the leading general is the key.

There were more than 30,000 people in the prison camp. After a series of reorganizations and streamlining, only 20,000 people were left. Li Xun valued the most, so he was asked to lead 10,000 soldiers alone, Chang Shuo, Hong Chengtao and Li Jian, each of whom was more than 3,000.

These four people were old generals wanted by Wei Wennan and Lu Si. They followed them for many years, but they were not the main senior generals of the two vassal states. Chang Shuo, who had the highest position, was just a general of the Central Army and had a low status, so these people were not very ambitious. As a rebel, as a defeated party, the court not only forgave them, but also gave them important tasks, which was enough to make Chang Shuo and others feel grateful to the court. In a short period of time, they would never have any disagreement.

On this day, Li Xunzheng and Huang Hui, Kou Xiong and others chatted in the room.

The door was knocked, and Bi Xiangzu reported outside: "Sir, the assistant minister, Lord Yang Runyang, has arrived."

Li Xun and others stopped talking.

Li Xun joked: "Yang Run came just right, it's time to go to dinner. It seems that he's been rushing over time."

After hearing Li Xun's joke, Huang Hui, Kou Xiong and others all started to laugh.

After a war, everyone's relationship was obviously much closer. It is also because everyone has suffered from life and death, and it is difficult for outsiders to understand the feelings.

Li Xun had known about Yang Run's coming to Lingnan for a long time. Although he was far away in Lingnan, Li Xun knew everything about the big and small things in the court. After all, the news channels of the secret guards were still very accurate and timely.

Yang Run entered Lingnan Road three days ago, stopped and walked around some places, looked around, obviously trying to understand the basic situation of Lingnan more clearly. Yang Run came this time, representing the imperial court, and some of his actions were naturally purposeful, so Li Xun did not take the initiative to greet Yang Run. He wanted to go around, so he could see it clearly and not disturb him. If he saw it clearly, he would naturally come to Chenzhou.

When Yang Run traveled this time, he didn't bring many people, just one document and more than twenty guards.

"Sir Yang, I thought you would come to Chenzhou tomorrow."

When he saw Yang Run, Li Xun said with a smile.

Yang Run smiled and said, "It's time to come now, and it's just right for dinner."

When Li Xun and others heard Yang Run's words, they all laughed.

Yang Run was puzzled and asked, "Why do you guys laugh?"

Li Xun did not hide it and told everyone what he had just said.

After hearing this, Yang Run also started to laugh.

"Sir Yang, if you have anything to say, let's go to the living room to talk."

"Everything follows Li Xiangguo's arrangements."

Yang Run nodded and said, with a very polite attitude, and did not have the arrogance and nobility as an imperial envoy of the court.

Everyone arrived at the living room, sat down one by one, and brought the tea.

Li Xun spoke. He did not ask Yang Run about his purpose of visiting Lingnan and the affairs of the court. Instead, he talked about the local affairs in Lingnan. Yang Run followed Li Xun's words and told the situation of the several prefectures and counties he had visited in the past few days, and praised Zhao Bai'an and Li Xun, saying that without diversion of local money, grain and manpower in Lingnan, they completely eliminated the rebellion of Shi Hu and Cao Shi, and defeated the 50,000 Zhan Po's army. Many ministers and emperors in the court praised this.

Li Xun and Yang Run were chatting there, talking about irrelevant topics. Kou Xiong and other generals sitting below, at first thought they were just polite in the opening remarks and would soon talk about key topics. But unexpectedly, the two of them were chatting there for nearly half an hour until someone came to inform him that dinner was ready and dinner could be started.

Kou Xiong couldn't sit still and was about to ask, but Huang Hui, who was beside him, held his hand, shook his head, and whispered: "We should stop interrupting the matter between civil servants."

Kou Xiong said: "I am the left minister of the Ministry of War and a civil servant."

Huang Hui whispered: "You are a bullshit civil servant."

Kou Xiong rolled his eyes and stopped talking.

The dinner was very ordinary, just a dinner with a table of people. More than a dozen major generals accompanied Yang Run for dinner. Yang Run had no idea about this, either. He did not notify him in advance. Moreover, not long after the war ended, so many people died, the soldiers in the army were still in a low mood. It was not appropriate to hold a big banquet at this time. Moreover, Li Xun was in charge of the prime minister and did not need to accommodate Yang Run too much.
Chapter completed!