Huang Yan originally rebelled with Han Sui, and later entrenched in Jiuquan, and was expressed by Han Sui as Jiuquan Taishou, which was actually because the court whip was out of reach and temporarily gave him a legal identity, and later Huang Yan directly took refuge in Wei Yan because he saw the opportunity quickly.

However, not long after, Ma Teng sent someone to secretly bribe Huang Yan, asking Huang Yan to rebel against Ma Teng, if successful, Ma Teng would guarantee to perform Huang Yan as the assassin of Liangzhou, and fight against Pei Qing with Huang Yan.

Huang Yan was originally only temporarily attached to Wei Yan, but now he saw Ma Teng's support, and at the same time saw that Wei Yan was not in Liangzhou, he was even more moved, so he agreed, and immediately led his troops to rebel after Ma Teng sent him five thousand horses and a large number of materials and equipment, after all, Huang Yan still has some prestige in Jiuquan in recent years, so under his coercion and temptation, the counties to which Jiuquan belongs have surrendered, which makes the thieves more and more powerful, and in the end, Huang Yan actually gathered tens of thousands of troops to attack Zhangye.

Zhang Ye Taishou Duan Tong just went to office not long after this kind of thing happened, in fact, it was also a little unexpected, although he concurrently served as the lieutenant of Juyan's vassal country, but at that time, after all, the benevolence was not established, and the Lu Shuihu people of Juyan's vassal country also rebelled under the bewitchment of Huang Yan, only the Qiang people of Zhangye's vassal country did not lead the army to help, but they did not participate in the rebellion, but were just in the wait-and-see period, which reduced the pressure on Duan Tong a lot.

Duan Tong still has more than 5,000 soldiers and horses in Zhangye City, most of these soldiers and horses are Cheng Ji's generals, and now Cheng Ji is still in Zhangye, worshiped as a county lieutenant, although it is no longer too guarded, but after all, it is an official position officially appointed by the imperial court, plus this Cheng Ji is bent on revenge, and does not accept Ma Teng's purchase at all, but wholeheartedly follows and assists Duan Tong to assist Duan Tong to defend the city together.

Duan Tong was wary of Cheng Ji at first, but after a period of time, he finally realized Cheng Ji's loyalty and valued him very much, but it was a pity that the other party's ability was very ordinary, otherwise with Duan Tong's assistance, he would be extremely easy when defending the city.

However, now because Cheng Ji obeys the command, the defense of the city this time is not too difficult, and Lu Shuihu and Huang Yan are not subordinate to each other, and there is no cooperation between them at all, and the pressure on Duan Tong is not too great.

The current Duan Tong is actually most worried about the Qiang force of Zhangye's vassal country, once they are bewitched by Huang Yan or Ma Teng and turn against them, the pressure they face will be great, after all, he faces another 10,000 or 20,000 enemies.

"It's been half a month now, Wuwei's Chenggong Taishou and Liangzhou Wei Thorn Shi have not sent troops, if they are willing to send troops to help, it is estimated that our army has almost been defeated now, right? Do they really want to give me up? ”

As time passed, Duan Tong's heart gradually had some doubts, he really couldn't understand why Cheng Gongying and Wei Yan hadn't sent troops to rescue until now, wasn't he afraid that he wouldn't be able to hold on?

However, after a few days, Duan Tong gradually became less complaining and worried, because the current enemy army seems to have 30,000 or 40,000 people, and the pressure is not small, but in fact, the other party has not taken the slightest advantage at all, and in more than 20 days, he has lost four or five hundred people, but the other party has lost four or five thousand people, and its loss is ten times that of his own.

And the most important thing is that Duan Tong actually figured it out by himself, in his opinion, since the lord Pei Qing was willing to spend a lot of effort to give him the elixir, how could he see that he was in danger and let it go? In what he had seen and heard before, Pei Qing would never give up any loyal general, and those who gave the elixir were like treasures, and it was impossible to give up at all.

So this means that Pei Qing is not sending troops to help now, this is deliberate, as for the purpose of doing this, it is not difficult to judge, Duan Tong thinks that this is Pei Qing deliberately testing himself and giving himself the opportunity to accumulate experience.

What's more, he has been threatening to be comparable to his cousin Duan Cheng now, but could it be that Duan Cheng became flustered and depressed when he encountered such a force's attack? If you are really like this, how can you be worthy of this ability? How can you be worthy of the cultivation of the lord Pei Qing?

In fact, if a person puts himself in the shoes of another person, even if what others do disappoints him, he will find a way to find a reason to excuse the other person.

What's more, his speculation is actually true, Pei Qing does think so.

Because Pei Qing knows that ability alone does not mean that he will definitely win in battle, and fighting also requires the accumulation of experience, the cultivation of confidence, and the ability to adapt to the enemy, and these cannot be solved by ability alone.

And the best way to cultivate the above abilities is through actual combat, and now there is such an opportunity, of course Pei Qing will not give up this opportunity to exercise the ability of the generals.

Of course, the reason why Pei Qing decided to do this, in fact, there is another purpose, that is, to hide from the sky and the sea, secretly Chen Cang and other means, on the surface, it seems that Chang'an is happy, but in fact, this is just a means to paralyze others, just on a dark and windy night in a certain month, Wei Yan quietly went out of Chang'an after some dressing, and took dozens of personal soldiers out of Chang'an overnight, running in the direction of Wuwei at a speed of three or four hundred miles a day.

More than 2,000 miles away, Wei Yan only took five days to arrive, after arriving, Wei Yan immediately mobilized troops to rescue Zhang Ye, his actions were so fast that there was no time to react, and even at this moment, Ma Teng's spies in Chang'an did not know the news of Wei Yan's departure from the city.

Even Ma Teng's spies didn't know the news of Wei Yan's departure from Chang'an, how could Huang Yan know? He is now full of spring breeze and high spirits, feeling that with his own ability and so many people gathered around him, it is only a matter of time before he wants to conquer Zhangye, of course, in order to minimize his own casualties, Huang Yan continues to persuade the upper echelons of Zhangye's vassal states, hoping that they can accept his persuasion and establish an alliance with themselves to attack Han, and he will share Zhangye with them equally at that time.

However, few of the soldiers and civilians in Zhangye's vassal country would actively respond to Huang Yan, although Huang Yan was persuading hard, but the effect was not satisfactory.

However, at this moment, something worse happened, just when he was determined to gather forces to carry out the final decisive battle against Zhangye City, and was about to capture the city in one go, Wei Yan led his team to kill like a god from the sky.