At the beginning of the fourth year, at the end of September.

In just one month, Lu Bu suppressed the arrogance of the invincible Taihang bandits. First, the main force of the Montenegrin army was wiped out in the battles of Yuxian and Wolf Meng, and then a large army was recruited and the troops marched into Taihang. The unstoppable Han army marched northwest along the Jingcheng Road, almost sweeping the entire Northern Taihang!

Those big and small thief chieftains who were hiding on Taihang Mountain also really saw the power of the Han army! When those armoured and majestic, majestic Han troops suddenly descended in front of their lair, where could any thieves resist? Most of these thieves either surrendered or were beheaded by the Han army! Only a handful of thieves were able to escape. The Han army beheaded more than 10,000 people, and everywhere they went, it was unstoppable.

During this period, this Zhang Yan naturally did not sit idly by and watch the advance of the Han army. In order to stop the advance of the Han army, Zhang Yan also fought a lot of fierce battles with the Han army in several places. But without exception, all of them were fiascos! Those tunbi were also captured by the Han army. Zhang Yan could only retreat again and again, until he finally shrank all his forces and guarded this last lair.

Countless Han armies besieged this valley layer by layer, above the red rabbit, Lu Bu looked at the valley that was enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, and also showed a rare look of shock, looking back left and right, "It is said that this well is difficult and difficult to walk, but there is also a hole in it!" The two sides of this entrance and exit are extremely narrow, and the narrowest part cannot accommodate two cars in parallel! But in this well, there are valleys and rivers all over the place, and some open places can accommodate hundreds of thousands of troops! Sure enough, it's a good place to hide soldiers! ”

Everyone laughed.

Not to mention Lu Bu, even they never thought that there was such an open place in this well road! But it is also reasonable, if these places are not open, how can they accommodate so many Taihang thieves? If it is not open, how can it accommodate hundreds of thousands of troops to fight here?

But such an open place is just right for them to set up camp! These 100,000 troops can be lined up. If the place is narrow, I am afraid that this army will not be able to stretch out.

"Lord, look, the valley in front of you is Luoshi Valley! In this valley, hundreds of thousands of soldiers can be stationed! Now there are about 200,000 thieves in this Luo City Valley, but most of them are also old and weak women and children. That Zhang Yan's real battleable pawn is the sixty or seventy thousand thieves in front of the lord! But among the 60,000 or 70,000 people, Zhang Yan had less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the rest were all thief chieftains who escaped from various valleys. ”

Li Ru took a big sip of wine, spread out the blurred sheepskin map on horseback, and while looking at the map, he looked at the distant scene and said, "Yuxian, Wolf Meng, Yu Geng, Li Damu, Zhang Baiqi, Zhang Lei Gong and other thief chieftains were all killed!" Among the thieves in front of him now, except for Zhang Yan, there are only three people who are more powerful, Liu Shi, Guo Daxian, and Bai Que. Among these three people, only Liu Shi has a crowd of 10,000 people, and the remaining two people are only a few thousand......

"So, that Liu Shi is second only to Zhang Yan's thief chieftain Qu is handsome?"

Lu Bu's eyes narrowed.

"That's right!"

Li Ru replied simply, "That Liu Shi didn't go down the mountain with Zhang Yan to loot, so there were not too many casualties in this group!" At this moment, he has jumped to the second only person in the thief chieftain who has a strong army! ”

"I don't know why this place is called Luoshi Valley?"

Dong Zhao suddenly asked.

Li Ru looked at Dong Zhao and explained, "This Luoshi Valley, during the Taiping period, was originally a city!" There are still many people living in this city! Later, when the world was chaotic, more and more people fled here to avoid disaster! Later, this place became a safe place for those thieves, so this Luo City was changed to Luo City Valley. ”

"This valley can raise soldiers!"

Lu Bu looked at the thieves who were getting more and more commotion in front of him, and said calmly, "They have found a good place!" Since this Luoshi Valley was originally only a city, it is naturally impossible for this exit to be the only one? ”

Li Ru didn't answer for a while.

Fortunately, at this time, the guide who led the way, a sharp-beaked monkey gills and a small leader of the Black Mountain Army named Yang Bailong, explained to Lu Bu, "The prince's guess is naturally right!" This Luoshi Valley is not only this pass, there is also a pass in the west, from that pass, there is a small road, from there through it, it is able to reach the Changshan boundary of Jizhou. There you can make a detour to Jingcheng Pass, and you can go directly to Changshan. It's just that this trail is quite difficult and dangerous, and the army can't cross it. Our small group of thieves often go down from there to the wells and go to the Changshan realm to plunder......"

"Detour to Jingcheng Pass?"

Lu Bu suddenly understood!

Even though it is said that this Jingcheng Pass is a necessary place to go down Hebei along the Jingcheng Road, there are many trails on this Jingcheng Road, and there are some shortcuts that can directly reach Hebei. If the army goes down to the Jingcheng Road, or must pass through this Jingcheng Pass to reach Hebei, this does not mean that other places cannot pass through Hebei. Otherwise, why was this Zhang Yan able to go down to the mountains from time to time to plunder?

Taihang Eight Mountains extend in all directions, and the trails on this Taihang Mountain are even more numerous. These Taihang thieves have been able to wreak havoc on the Taihang Mountains for so many years, and they still know the geography between the Taihang Mountains, so they can calmly advance and retreat freely.

Knock, knock, knock!

The hurried war drums pulled Lu Bu's wandering thoughts back! When his eyes were raised, he saw that in the enemy formation opposite, a person rode out on a white horse, and shouted to this side from afar, "Old man Yangqu, can you see it?" ”

Lu Bu drove the red rabbit forward, looked at Zhang Yan on the white horse, and chuckled, "Should I call you Chu Yan, or Chu Feiyan, or Zhang Yan?" ”

"It doesn't matter what the name is."

Zhang Yan also smiled, "Call me whatever you want." After all these years, I've forgotten my real name! ”

Yes, whether it is Chu Yan or Feiyan, or other names, they are not Zhang Yan's real names. His name was originally the same as those thief chieftains, because he was agile and as light as a swallow, so he had the name "Feiyan". But whether this Feiyan is Zhang Yan's real name or not, it's really not necessarily! Now there is only one thing that can be confirmed, and that is Zhang Yan's original surname Chu.

But in order to repay Zhang Niujiao's kindness, and in order to unite the hearts of hundreds of thousands of thieves in Taihang, Chu Yan had no choice but to change his surname to Zhang, so that Zhang Yan's real name is really unknown to anyone, even Zhang Yan himself has forgotten. Now, what is the surname, what is the name, and what is the importance?

Lu Bu also smiled noncommittally, "Does this name really matter?" Don't you want to change your surname to Chu, give birth to a son and a half daughter, and inherit the incense of your Chu family? ”

"I thought about it."

Zhang Yan nodded slightly, but looked at Lu Bu again, and said word by word, "But I have no other choice!" In this life, I can only be Zhang Yan, and I will only be Zhang Yan! This is the commander of hundreds of thousands of thieves! ”