Two days later, Yuan Shao gathered the crowd to discuss the matter.

He said that Zhang Yan, a thief in Changshan Black Mountain, had more than 100,000 thieves and seriously threatened the stability of Jizhou, so he wanted to send Li Xian to lead the army and horses to conquer Zhang Yan.

Li Xian had experience in conquering the Black Mountain thieves before, and he was known as the Long Halberd General by the Black Mountain Thieves, so the Black Mountain Thieves were afraid, and it was most suitable for him to conquer the Black Mountain Thieves.

However, now the north wants to ask for Gongsun Zhan, and the south also wants to reject Cao Cao, and the troops can only give Li Xian 3,000 men and horses, and send General Zhang He to help.

I believe that General Li Xian will live up to his expectations and vow to exterminate the Black Mountain thief Zhang Yan.

When he heard the news, Guo Tu's face was full of pride, while Xu You, Feng Ji and others had no expression on their faces.

The most shocked was frustrated, and he immediately objected: "Three thousand men and horses to conquer more than 100,000 thieves, isn't this letting General Yangwei go to death?" ”

Guo Tu sneered and said: "Although there are many thieves, they are just a rabble, and General Yang Wei is brave and brave, I believe that there are 3,000 people, and they will be able to win all, right?" General Lee. ”

Seeing Guo Tu asking himself a question, Li Xian immediately smiled and said: "The enemy is outnumbered, although it is difficult to win, but the matter is man-made." Even if he is not victorious, it is the duty of a general to die in battle. As long as I can make the people stable, I will not regret my death. ”

Li Xian expected that Yuan Shao would target him, originally thought that Yuan Shao would just drive him away, but he didn't expect to borrow Zhang Yan's knife to kill him. But now that it's ready to fly, it's useless to excuse yourself, so it's better to respond to the next step and think about countermeasures slowly.

Hearing this, he hurriedly said: "General Yangwei, you are only three thousand ......."

Li Xian interrupted him and said: "There is no need to say more about the Duke and the general, Duke Yuan not only asked me to lead the army to recruit Zhang Yan, which is a trust in me and an opportunity for me to make meritorious contributions." I voted for Yuan Gong, and I have no merit, and this time I will bravely rush to the head of the battle to repay Yuan Gong's kindness. ”

Tian Feng also said at this time: "General Yangwei's heroic spirit is admirable, and I wish General Yangwei an early victory and triumph." ”

Yuan Shao saw that he and Tian Feng were defending Li Xian, and said with some disgust: "Gonghe and Yuan Hao, it is better for you to fight Zhang Yan with General Yangwei." ”

Fu Zhu knew that if he said more, he would really make Yuan Shao suspicious, so he kept silent.

Tian Feng smiled heartily and said, "Okay, I am willing to accompany General Yangwei to Zhang Yan." ”

Feng Ji was also busy at this time: "Duke Yuan, the prince and the general supervise the three armies, how can they go out with Yangwei." ”

Fu Zhu is now a governor, and he is more prestigious in Jizhou, so Yuan Shao can't offend him at will.

Although Tian Feng is a different driver and has a reputation in Jizhou, he has repeatedly verbally offended Yuan Shao, and his relationship with other colleagues is not so good.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shao immediately followed his words and said: "That's good, then let Tian Beijia join the army and go to Zhang Yan with General Yangwei." ”

Yuan Shao gave up Tian Feng and wanted him to die with Li Xian.

Three days later, the army and horses were all fed up with grain and grass, and Li Xian led more than 3,000 men and horses to set off for Changshan.

Li Xian led the men and horses to march slowly, and after 12 days, they arrived at Shiyi and set up camp.

There are more than 100,000 Montenegrin thieves in Changshan, Yuan Shao once defeated and killed Yu Poison and other Montenegrin thieves in the fourth year of Chuping, and then Lu Bu helped to defeat Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan's subordinates were scattered among the mountains, and Li Xian discovered that Zhang Yan led more than 30,000 people to hide in Jingcheng Mountain.

After setting up camp, Li Xian was not in a hurry to attack Zhang Yan, but asked Gao Shun and Zhao Yun to train soldiers every day.

Yuan Shao only gave Li Xian 1,000 men and horses, and the other 2,000 were led by Zhang He, although Zhang He listened to Li Xie's military orders, Li Xian had no right to command Zhang He's soldiers.

The bandits brought from Chaoge before were too poor in combat effectiveness, and Gao Shun trained the 1,000 people given by Yuan Shao according to the standard of the trapping camp. Yuan Shao also only gave two hundred horses, plus the previous one only had three hundred horses, which were led by Zhao Yun as cavalry.

After more than ten days, Tian Feng saw that Li Xian was only training every day, but there was no sign of marching to conquer Zhang Yan, he couldn't help but be a little worried, and asked Li Xiandao: "Why didn't the general march to conquer Zhang Yan?" ”

"We only have less than 4,000 people, just going into the mountains to fight Zhang Yan, what do you think are our chances of winning?"

"Defeat. Does the general have a good plan? ”

Li Xian smiled: "When the soldiers can fight hard for me, they can defeat Zhang Yan." ”

Tian Feng understood that these soldiers were all sent by Yuan Shao, and they were not completely under Li Xian's orders, and if they went to the battlefield, they would definitely be easy to defeat the soldiers.

Now that Li Xian knows what the problem is, then he will have a solution, Tian Feng believes that Li Xian has the ability to solve it, so he doesn't ask more.

On the second day, there was a Qu soldier in the trap camp trained by Gao Shun who disobeyed the order, thinking that the intensity of Gao Shun's training was too great for many soldiers to endure and took the lead in dismissing the training.

Li Xian took Zhao Yun to the training ground, and saw that the military candidate was leading people to surround Gao Shun, Gao Shun was holding a knife in his hand, and the scene was tense, and he was about to mutiny.

Li Xian was the main general, and the soldiers were still more jealous of him, and when they saw him coming, they retreated one after another.

The soldier who took the lead in resisting relied on his own bravery, and he didn't take Gao Shun too seriously.

After understanding the situation, Li Xian said to the soldiers: "Let everyone train, so that everyone can survive after going to the battlefield." When I bring you out, I will be responsible for you, and I will take you back with meritorious service. So I hope that my brothers can obey General Gao's military orders and train themselves to be stronger. ”

The soldier said arrogantly: "The Black Mountain thieves are just a rabble, vulnerable to attack, with General Gao's current method, we will not die on the battlefield, but may die on the training ground." ”

In order to establish his authority, Li Xian said to the military candidate: "Why don't you compete with me." ”

That soldier knew that Li Xian was powerful, but he was also more confident in himself, and even if he was defeated, he should not be so badly defeated.

Because it was an infantry battle, Li Xian did not use his halberd to take over the ring head knife from Gao Shun.

The soldier also took the knife in his hand, and Gao Shun originally asked Li Xian to wear armor in case of accidents, but Li Xian resolutely refused to wear it.

At this time, Tian Feng and Zhang He also came to the scene, and they saw the military candidate attacking Li Xian, but in a blink of an eye, Li Xian's knife was already on the neck of the military candidate.

Li Xian did not kill him immediately, but had him tied up and said loudly: "We have military discipline, and those who disobey military orders will be beheaded." ”

He really beheaded the soldier.

The soldiers saw Li Xian's force, and they were unpredictable, and they all obeyed him.

Many people also hope that they can be as brave as him and become a general in the future, so they train even harder.

Zhang He was also awe-inspiring when he saw it, and he had a little more respect for Li Xian in his heart.

Tian Feng just smiled and walked away, he had a little more confidence in Li Xian's victory over Zhang Yan.

After another ten days, Yuan Shao had already sent people to urge the battle several times.

Now there is no food and grass, and the rest of the grain and grass in the army can only be eaten for five days.

Zhao Yun said to Li Xian: "General, I know Zhang Yan, why don't you let me go to the mountains and see if I can persuade him to come down." ”

After hearing this, Li Xian shook his head and said, "No, we have few soldiers, how can we make him submit?" However, our food and grass will be cut off, and the battle with Zhang Yan will only be in these few days. ”

"Why has it been nearly a month since we came here, but the general didn't go to fight with Zhang Yan?" Zhao Yun asked puzzled.

"We need time to train our soldiers, and we need them to work together. Zhang He was ordered by Yuan Shao to supervise us, and if it weren't for the 2,000 men and horses he led, we wouldn't be able to defeat Zhang Yan no matter how powerful we were. Only by pulling him to the same heart as us can we have a chance of winning. ”

"So how can we get him to be with us?"

"We are not the only hungry who are hungry now, but they are so hungry that they will beg us to send troops, and then they will be of our use."

"Yes."

As he was talking, the soldiers came to report, and some soldiers robbed the people of food.

Li Xian was furious when he heard this, but he was overjoyed in his heart.