The sub-card has passed, and everything is quiet, but the dim light is still flashing in the study of the Yuan's City Mansion, which pulls the figure of Changshan Taishou Han Fan to the door all the way. Han Fan was originally a retainer of Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao attacked Zhao County in the fifth year of Jian'an, and Han Fan, who was then Yiyang Ling, took the initiative to surrender the city, and was listed by Cao Cao as the Marquis of Guannei, and served as the Taishou of Changshan after the abolition of the country as a county. Originally, Han Fan was the head of a county as a subordinate, and he could be regarded as receiving a fat difference. However, at present, this Han Fujun is sitting on pins and needles for several days in a row, and he can't sleep at night.

It turned out that not long ago, the rumors of Cao Cao's defeat of Chibi's elite spread throughout Changshan County as if they had grown wings. At first, Han Fan also sent troops and horses to strictly investigate those who deceived the people, but as time went on, more and more signs showed that the rumors in the market were true and there was no falsehood. What made Han Fan even more shocked was that Xiaoxiao in various places raised troops one after another after learning of Cao Gong's fiasco, and for a while, rebellions in Changshan sprung up everywhere like mushrooms after a rain, making people unguardable. Among the many rebels under various banners, Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army was the strongest and the most imposing, and it was approaching the outskirts of Yuanshi in just a few days. So much so that Han Fan had to order all the cities in the county to close their doors and avoid fighting to avoid their edge.

Fortunately, there are still 5,000 soldiers and horses of Lu Weihuang's troops stationed in the Yuan City, plus Shi Lian's troops stationed in Gaoyi, Han Fan believes that as long as the city is guarded, Zhang Yan will not be able to do it. Once Prime Minister Cao Cheng led the army back to the Central Plains, Zhang Yan's remnants of the Yellow Turban would not be afraid. But deep in Han Fan's heart, there was a voice that beat his fragile nerves like a spell.

Can Prime Minister Cao Cheng return to his teacher?

Han Fan tried his best not to let himself think about it, but he was never able to put it behind him. For the current Cao Ying, the worst scenario is that Cao Cao was defeated and died in Jingzhou. In this way, Cao Ying needs to face more than just rogues like Zhang Yan. Rather, it is the princes who are waiting for an opportunity around them.

In fact, long before Zhang Yan's uprising, Anping County, which is adjacent to Changshan, deployed heavy troops on the border. Qi who is sitting in Anping will be Han Fan's old acquaintance - Gao Lan. Similar to Han Fan, Gao Ran is also a general, but this former Hebei Siting Pillar had fought a few fierce battles with Cao Cai's allied forces before surrendering to Cai. It can be regarded as repaying the kindness of Yuan's acquaintance. Therefore, the high review of the wind is even higher than that of Han Fan.

At first, Han Fan also laughed at Gao Ran's lack of vision, and Cao Cheng, who was eloquent and strategic, did not vote, and actually surrendered to a woman like Cai Anzhen. Later, seeing that Cai Ji was trapped in Liaoxi, Han Fan even had a schadenfreude mentality and stationed troops on the border between Changshan and Anping to exert pressure. It's just that he never expected that after only a few months of hard work, he and Gao Ran would have changed places. Now the only thing that makes Han Fan feel a little fortunate is that Prime Minister Cao Cheng has many heirs, and Cao Ang, the eldest son as the heir, has both ability and political integrity. Thinking about it, even if Prime Minister Cao Cheng has an accident, Cao Ying can continue to serve Cao Gongzi as the master. Unlike Qi Ying, Cai Anzhen died and was extinct.

And just when Han Fan was secretly comforting. Outside the house, there was a sudden rush of panicked yelling. Han Fan, who was trembling in his heart, hurriedly rushed out of the house, and saw that the sky in the south of the city was red, and the arrogant tongue of fire jumped up more than a few feet. It is even higher than the walls and pavilions of the Yuan family.

That... That was where the granary was - suddenly, Han Fan felt that it was dark in front of him, and he almost fainted. It took him a while to come to his senses, stumbling out of the study, and shouting, "Someone! Come! ”

After a while, a servant rushed to report. "Fujun! Big things are not good! Montenegro also breaks the city! ”

"Black Mountain Break! Zhang Yan has not yet attacked the city. How can you say that the city is broken? After listening to what the servant said, Han Fan calmed down. I thought that this fire was probably caused by the Montenegrin thieves who had infiltrated the city. I saw him pick up the servant and order angrily, "What do you do! Hurry up and ask General Lu to extinguish the fire and capture the thief! ”

It was not necessary for Han Fan to order, and at this time, Lu Weihuang had already sent troops to Nancheng to put out the fire. And he had more eyes than Han Fan, thinking that the Black Mountain thieves outside the city might take advantage of the chaos to attack the city. So at the same time that a large number of Cao soldiers were woken up from their sleep and stumbled to Nancheng to extinguish the fire, Lu Weihuang decisively led a team of personal soldiers to the south gate to supervise the battle.

However, he did not wait for Lu Weihuang to rush to the south gate. Outside the south gate, it was already a sound of killing. Countless tongues of fire slashed through the night sky red with flames and shot at the city, completely blinding the defenders by surprise. In addition, nearly 1,000 soldiers set up more than 100 ladders to climb the wall.

"Don't panic! The armies obeyed. Go upstairs and defend the city! Lu Weihuang waved the spear in his hand, shouted and rushed to support the defenders of the city. Who would have thought that a burst of shouts suddenly came from his ears, "Where is Lu Weihuang!" ”

said that it was too late, and the cold star burst out in the dark, and Lu Weihuang only felt a burst of murderous intent rushing towards him. Instinctively, he lifted his horse and staggered to avoid an arrow that grazed his neck. The short-tempered Lu Weihuang suddenly became furious, and volleyed the gun through an arc and pointed directly at the other end of the flame, "He Fangxiao!" Dare to sneak attack Ben Shuai! ”

Before the words fell, I saw a burly figure leaping out of the wall of fire, "Black Mountain Du Chang, I have come to take your life!" ”

It turned out that after Du Chang boasted about Haikou in front of Cai Ji that day, he immediately found Zhang Yan, who was entrenched near Heng Mountain, and planned to persuade him to lead his troops to join the Qi army. Who would have thought that at that time, it happened that Cai Ji was trapped in western Liaoning, and Zhang Yan, who felt that the future of Qi Ying was unpredictable, shirked Du Chang's recruitment in every way, and persuaded Du Chang to stay in Hengshan and not to go to the troubled waters of Qi Ying.

And just when Du Chang was desperate and planned to leave Hengshan and return to Youzhou to rescue Cai Ji, a Qi army spy who claimed to be Zhu Lin brought Du Chang a secret letter stamped with the seal of the Qi Marquis' Mansion. In the letter, Guo Jia, who was the driver of Qingzhou at the time, ordered Du Chang not to mention the matter of Zhao'an for the time being, but to continue to stay by Zhang Yan's side to win his trust. In order to prompt the Montenegrin army to attack Changshan County, which was controlled by Cao's army, when the time was ripe, prompted the Montenegrin army to attack Changshan County.

Du Chang thought that the "day when the time is ripe" mentioned by Guo Jia in the letter would have to wait two or three years to appear, but he never thought that in just a few months, the news of Cao Cao's disastrous defeat in Chibi came from Nanyi. For a time, the states and counties under Cao Cao's rule could be said to be in danger for everyone. Around Hengshan, Changshan County has the weakest troops. Therefore, there was almost no need for Du Chang to deliberately come forward to agitate, and the Montenegrin army seemed to have regarded Changshan as a delicious piece of fish belly.

Of course, it is regarded as the belly of the fish. It doesn't mean that Changshan is really a fish belly. In the past, a battle outside Yijing City almost wiped out the Montenegrin army. Although after several years of operation, Zhang Yan finally pulled up another vote of soldiers and horses, but this army still cannot be compared with the Montenegrin Army in the past. This is also a big reason why Zhang Yan tried her best to keep Du Chang. After all, a thousand armies are easy to get, and one is hard to find. And what Du Chang brought to Zhang Yan was not only a combat power, but also the intelligence provided by the Qi army. You must know that the Cao and Cai families have sent spies to infiltrate each other over the years. For Cao Jun's deployment in Changshan, the Qi army is not well understood. But it is definitely stronger than the Black Mountain Army, which is like a rogue army. It was with this information that Zhang Yan was able to drive straight into Changshan like a cow until he hit the hard bone of Changshan County's Zhiyuan City.

It is said that siege warfare has never been the strong point of Zhang Yan and other Yellow Turban remnants, and the limited strength of the Montenegrin army makes it undesirable to storm it. At this time, it was Guo Jia who provided tips to guide Du Chang to the siege plan. Guo Jia's strategy was actually very simple, that is, Du Chang would lead a team of elite merchants to infiltrate the city and lurk before the Montenegrin army arrived at Yuan. After Zhang Yanbing came to the city, he waited for the opportunity to set fire to the city to meet the siege of Montenegro. Zhang Yan himself did not have a good strategy to attack the city, so he also let Du Chang lead the troops to lurk and let go. And so. There was this scene in front of me.

"Bastard!" Lu Weihuang screamed and raised his gun.

Under the firelight, the two iron spears collided violently, making a loud sound like a dragon's groan. Occasionally, there is also Mars. Du Chang and Lu Weihuang went back and forth, and they killed more than twenty or thirty moves, but they actually fought indefinitely. The soldiers who were beside them also slaughtered in the darkness of the night.

Suddenly, a deafening loud bang pierced the long night, and it turned out that the Montenegrin army outside the city smashed open the city gate with a large conical log with a thick encirclement. took advantage of the moment when Lu Weihuang was distracted. Du Chang caught a flying fly and stabbed a shot. went straight to Lu Weihuang's soft underbelly. Caught off guard, Lu Weihuang screamed and fell off the horse and rolled to the side. Then another cold light flashed, cutting off half of his head as he was about to get up.

"Qu Shuai!" Du Chang rode his horse to meet Zhang Yan, who arrived in time.

Zhang Yan shook off the blood-stained spear, looked around at the surrounding fires, frowned and asked, "Zhijie, won't you really burn the granary?" ”

Du Chang smiled slightly. Clenched his fists and replied, "Qu Shuai rest assured." All the grain and grass have been transferred and not a single loss has been lost. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yan glanced at Du Chang with a strange expression, and then led his Black Mountain people to the palace in the center of the city without saying a word. Du Chang didn't know where he said the wrong thing, which provoked Zhang Yan to react like this, and he had to follow in a daze.

It didn't take long for the group to arrive at the Taishou Mansion, but at this time, the Taishou Mansion had already become a pot of porridge. And he saw a crowd of men and women looting their possessions or crying and crying. Zhang Yan blackened his face and killed a few Xiaoxiao who grabbed things on the spot, and scared the others so that they all fell to the ground with a loud sound.

"Where is Han Fan now? Wait for the news to come! Zhang Yan glanced at the people on the ground and asked loudly.

After a while, an older man replied tremblingly, "Return...... Back to the general, Han Fujun fled west. ”

Zhang Yan snorted coldly, turned around and ordered the two generals who followed him, "Wait for Han Fan to pursue Han Fan as soon as possible, don't let him escape." ”

"Whoa."

With the orders of the two pro-generals, he left. Only then did Zhang Yan turn over and dismount, striding into the Taishou Mansion as a winner. This place was originally the palace of King Changshan, and it was not until Cao Cao abolished the country as a county that it was changed from the palace to the Taishou Mansion. Therefore, the scale of the mansion is much larger than that of the general mansion, and the mansion is full of pavilions and pavilions. Zhang Yan's subordinates have been in Hengshan Cat for so many years, where have they ever seen such a magnificent mansion with carved beams and paintings, and many people are secretly thinking in their hearts about what valuable things should be rolled up and run away later. What's more, he even started the idea of painting gold patterns on the beams.

However, this time, Zhang Yan did not order everyone to empty the mansion as usual when he robbed the house, but warned his subordinates not to hurt the innocent in the mansion. After dismissing the guards around him, Zhang Yan led Du Chang straight into the study of the mansion, sat down cross-legged on the original seat of the Taishou Residence, swung the saber towards the case, and then stared at Du Changfa coldly and asked, "Changshan has gone down, I don't know what else Qi Hou commands?" ”

At this time, only Zhang Yan and Du Chang were left inside and outside the study. Zhang Yan's question was like a shocking thunderbolt, which made Du Chang, who was not prepared at all, frightened for a while. He thought that he had covered it up well, but he never thought that Zhang Yan had already understood it. In a panic, Du Chang called out with a little weakness, "Qu Shuai......"

Zhang Yan raised his hand to interrupt Du Chang, who wanted to explain, and instead pointed to the fire in the south that had not yet been extinguished and sneered, "If it weren't for the help of Qi Ying, how could you remove the grain and grass in the warehouse without alarming Cao Jun?" ”

Du Chang was reluctant to let so much grain and grass in the warehouse be destroyed and burned, so he asked the Qi army in the city to help transfer the grain and grass. Who would have thought that it was this move that made him show his feet. So at this time, Du Chang faced Zhang Yan's questioning, and finally had to open his mouth helplessly, and then smiled wryly and hugged his fists, "Qu Shuai is wise." ”

However, where did Du Chang know that the real reason for Zhang Yan's suspicion was not the grain and grass that had not been burned, but his proud appearance in recent days. It must be known that in Zhang Yan's impression, Du Chang has always been a "fighting general", and it is not his style to plan anything at all. If Du Chang hadn't met a master from outside the world who had practiced the art of war in just a few years, someone was behind his back to guide him. Thinking of Du Chang's purpose for coming to him in the first place, the identity of the person behind the guide was about to come out.

In fact, Zhang Yan doesn't hate Cai Ji. After all, in the Battle of Yijing that year, Cai Ji was not the main force attacking the city, and he did not take Du Chang's life. He just didn't want to repeat the mistake of the Battle of Yijing again, and let his brother Mingzhu secretly give his life in vain. You must know that the current chaos of the situation has completely exceeded Zhang Yan's imagination, so that he can't judge who is more promising between Cao Cao and Cai Ji. If you want to talk about Cao Cao, Cao Cao was defeated by Chibi and died. If you want to talk about Cai Ji, but Cai Ji is just a woman after all.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Yan finally sighed, slowed down and said, "With the power of the Qi army, taking Changshan is like taking things, but the Marquis of Qi has given Changshan to Yan, but I don't know how Yan should repay the favor?" ”

Hearing Zhang Yan's tone soften, Du Chang immediately looked overcast, and replied with his fists clenched according to Guo Jia's explanation, "Qi Hou hopes that Qu Shuai can be stationed in Changshan to take care of each other with the Qi army. (Want to know more exciting news about "Phoenix Wears the Remnant"?) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends to add an official account, search for "Qidianzhongwenwang", follow the official account, and never miss every update! (To be continued......)