In a hall of Zhen's mansion, Zhen Yan let the two maids serve hot tea and then carefully retreated, leaving Zhang Liao alone in the room, and Zhao Yun and Guo Jia were left at the banquet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Liao stood alone in front of the window, looking at the snowflakes flying outside, slightly distracted.

Chu Ding, who stayed behind a year ago, and other Montenegrin troops rebelled, and before Zhang Liao could deal with it, the rebellious Montenegrin army died on the battlefield, under the knife of Ko Yi.

After pacifying Zhongshan and Changshan, Zhang Liao personally wrote a letter to Zhang Yan, who was in Guanzhong Zuo Feng Yi, roughly explaining the situation, and asked him to come to Changshan as soon as possible.

The rebellion of the Montenegrin army let Zhang Liao know that the Taihang Mountain area is not so easy to control, if he has already controlled Jizhou, he is not afraid, the key is that Jizhou is now in the hands of Yuan Shao, and Taihang Mountain is just at the junction of Jizhou and Bingzhou for hundreds of miles, so this area has become critical, if he can fully control it, then he will have a complete advantage in the confrontation with Yuan Shao.

At the beginning, he surrendered Zhang Yan and moved most of his old Black Mountain troops into Shangdang and Taiyuan, leaving 5,000 people to guard here, originally to prevent this area from being occupied by others, but they didn't expect them to take Zhang Yan into account at all and rebelled.

Now he has to reconsider the Taihang Mountain area, especially when he only accepted Zhang Yan, who was active in North Taihang, and Yu Poison, who was active in South Taihang, and other Montenegrin troops, there were more than 100,000 horses and hundreds of thousands of families, and he still wanted to control this force as soon as possible, otherwise it would be a pity to consume Yuan Shao in the civil strife in the Central Plains.

So he transferred Zhang Yan.

Zhang Liao was thinking about it, when Shi A's voice came from outside: "Lord, Zhang Zhonglang is here." ”

He walked quickly to open the door, but saw a person kneeling in front of the door, not wearing armor, and there was still a lot of snow on his clothes, it was Zhang Yan, the general of Zhonglang, but at this time he completely lost the demeanor when he first met in Montenegro, and his face was decadent and vicissitudes, obviously this incident hit him hard. Chu Ding is his younger brother, this rebellion is undoubtedly a stab in the back from Zhang Yan, just because Zhang Yan is still under Zhang Liao, they rebelled outside, from common sense, Zhang Yan's fate is conceivable.

"My lord, Zhang Yan came to ask for the guilt, please punish the lord." Zhang Yan bowed to the ground, holding up the Zhonglang General Ribbon Talisman with both hands, and his voice was heavy,

"Feiyan get up." Zhang Liao stepped forward in two steps, helped Zhang Yan up, took the ribbon talisman in his hand, personally tied the ribbon talisman to Zhang Yan's waist again, and said in a harmonious voice: "Montenegro is in rebellion, you are in Guanzhong, what is the crime?" It's cold outside, and I come inside to talk. ”

Zhang Yan saw Zhang Liao personally tie the ribbon to him again, and almost burst into tears, he came all the way, he was ready to die, but he didn't expect Zhang Liao to treat him like this, he didn't know what to say for a while.

You must know that his brother's rebellion not only put him in a place of death, but also almost killed Zhang Liao, and he has learned from Shi A that Zhang Liao is really dead this time.

Entering the house, Zhang Yan bowed down again: "Please surrender the lord!" ”

Zhang Liao helped him up again: "Don't be like this, this time I summoned you to come, not to ask for sin, but to have a heavy burden to entrust, I don't know if Feiyan is willing to help me?" ”

"The last general will go to the soup and go to the fire, shatter his bones and bones, and never give up!" Zhang Yan said loudly.

Zhang Liao patted him on the shoulder and sighed: "This time Chu Ding's matter is also my carelessness, and the control is not effective, and even this." ”

"Lord......" Zhang Yan choked up and couldn't speak: "Yes...... It's the last mistake. ”

Zhang Liao waved his hand: "I'm not false, the soldiers rebelled, the army could not be governed, as the lord should have introspected, this almost death is a lesson." ”

He paused, and said: "This time the rebels must be dealt with, I heard that they also secretly looted places during this time, there was no way to live, everyone had no choice but to go into the mountains to become bandits, there are forgivable circumstances, now there is a good way to go, but they still have to rebel and be bandits, then they will be dealt with seriously!" Those who should be cut should be killed, and those who should be punished should be punished, but I didn't expect that Koji Yi's methods were ruthless, and they all killed and filled the river, a few days ago, Yuan Shao sent Chu Ding's head again, saying that Chu Ding betrayed him again......"

Zhang Yan's eyes flashed with sadness, and he gritted his teeth and said: "He is to blame, Yuan Shaoben is not the same as ordinary people such as us, in the whole world, only the lord has the people in his heart, and he is the lord of our mind, but he betrayed the lord and died innocently." ”

"If Brother Ling had Feiyan to see it so clearly, he wouldn't have died at Yuan Shao's hands." Zhang Liao sighed, and saw that although Zhang Yan was sad, he was decadent and had gone a lot, so he immediately got straight to the point and said: "This time I summoned you to come to deal with the matter of Taihang Mountain. Now Yu Poison and others led 100,000 Montenegrin troops to act in Wei County, Hanoi, and Yanzhou, and were defeated by Cao Cao, and now they are fighting against Yuan Shao in Wei County, and most of them will fail, and the soldiers are scattered, so you should take the opportunity to go south, collect the remnants of Montenegro, reorganize into an army, and still defend Taihang Mountain, which must make Yuan Shao sleep and eat. If there is a difficulty, just speak up, and the matter must be done as soon as possible. ”

Zhang Yan said solemnly: "The last general will live up to the trust of the lord!" ”

Zhang Liao nodded: "You have been in Taihang Mountain for nearly ten years, this matter is not something you can't do, don't do it, restrain the soldiers, don't do it for the people, whether it is Jizhou or Merge State." ”

"Whoa!" Zhang Yan shouted his order.

Zhang Liao laughed: "Let's go, all the way to the dust, and I will first drink in this Zhen Mansion, and then act quickly." ”

This time Zhang Yan came back, Zhang Liao asked him to bring a thousand personal soldiers, all of whom were elite, with Zhang Yan's prestige in Taihang Mountain, it must not be difficult to control the Black Mountain Army, especially when Yu Poison and others were defeated and retreated again and again, and the mountains and rivers were exhausted, it was easier.

Back to the banquet, Su Shuang, Zhang Shiping, Zhen Mansion everyone saw the famous Jizhou Zhang Yan coming, their hearts were all awe-inspiring, Zhang Yan has gathered millions of people over the years, Changshan and Zhongshan are important places for his activities, so the people of the two counties are very in awe of him, at this time seeing the famous Zhang Yan to Zhang Liao's respectful appearance, they immediately increased their awe to Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao is the best at enlivening the atmosphere of the banquet, seeing that everyone seems to be in awe of Zhang Yan, he immediately talked about the topic of Zhao Yun and Zhen Dao.

That night, they rested in Zhen's mansion.

In the study, Zhang Liao and Guo Jia were having a long talk.

Guo Jia was hit by an arrow this time, but he has been practicing animal boxing with Zhang Liao, and his body is far better than before, even if he was injured this time, he also recovered quickly.

"Bong-hyo." Zhang Liao looked at the topographic map of Jizhou on the desk, and muttered: "This time Yuan Shao's ambush failed, I waited for several soldiers and horses to come out and attack Jizhou, but it was difficult to inflict heavy damage on him, according to your opinion, what means will he take to deal with us?" ”

This time Yuan Shao ambushed him, Zhang Liao did not hesitate to secretly order Xu Huang and Biqiu Yibing to attack Yuan Shao's rear in two ways, and led the snake out of the hole, found Yuan Shao's whereabouts, and sent Zhao Yun and Shi A to intercept Yuan Shao halfway.

It's just that he found out that Yuan Shao had thousands of crossbowmen around him, and if he forcibly ambushed him, the losses would inevitably be heavy, so the order he gave to Zhao Yun and Shi A was to attack lightly and quickly, only release arrows, not close combat, and once the enemy formed a defensive formation, he would immediately retreat.

The same is true of his orders to Biqiu Yi and Xu Huang, because he knows that Yuan Shao's rear has Tian Feng, Wen Chou and other strategists and fierce generals in charge, and it is not easy to attack, and he can't fight, otherwise the gains outweigh the losses.

Zhang Liao naturally wanted to take revenge on Yuan Shao, but he didn't necessarily want Yuan Shao's life, and he didn't have to fight for a city and a place.