Last time, it was said that Zhang Yan's family was implicated in the disaster of the party and was exterminated. The loyal servants of the Chu family desperately escorted them and escaped from the encirclement of officers and soldiers.

Although Chu Yan and his parents escaped, more relatives died at the hands of the Han army, and Zhang Yan's father was also seriously injured and did not survive the first night of the escape, so he left Chu Yan's mother and son forever.

The great luck in the misfortune is that Chu Yan and they still have some valuables on them, and after they are sold, they have enough capital to make a comeback, but they just need to change to a remote place and change their faces. Because no local official would fight against money, a rich and noble family suddenly appeared in his own place, and he was generous, and the magistrate casually gave Chu Yan and them a new identity.

At that time, because Chu's father was gone, Chu Yan began to run the house early with the support of loyal servants, and Chu Yan was only sixteen years old at that time.

Because Chu's mother couldn't accept the reality of the sudden drastic changes, she became confused all day long. Within two years, Chu's mother also passed away.

Later, when he was twenty years old, Chu Yan came into contact with the Taiping Sect, and with his rich experience of accumulating knowledge beyond ordinary people, being the head of the house and deceitful with other families, he realized that the good deeds of the Taiping Sect were buying people's hearts, and his intuition told him that the Taiping Sect's plans were not simple.

Chu Yan spent half a year observing and secretly investigating the Taiping Sect, and finally decided to join the Taiping Sect, because he found out that what the Taiping Sect was doing secretly could finally help him take revenge on the Han Court.

The Taiping Sect did not disappoint Chu Yan either, and often organized purposeful riots by victims in various places. Chu Yan also used a perfect annihilation of the Han court's army to suppress the rebellion and entered Zhang Jiao's eyes and became Zhang Jiao's disciple.

It's just that Chu Yan is not satisfied with the identity of Zhang Jiao's disciple, he has already found out the fact that the Zhang brothers have no queen when he investigated the Taiping Sect before. At that time, in addition to Zhang Liang being relatively young, if Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao had children, their children should also be half-grown children, but not only did the young Zhang Liang have no dolls, but even Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao had no children. Chu Yan felt that this was his opportunity to go further, so he resolutely worshipped Zhang Jiao as his father-in-law despite the opposition of his servants, and even changed his surname to "Zhang".

Zhang Yan's hand was indeed very effective, and Zhang Jiao soon began to train him as a successor, and handed over the army in the Taiping Sect to Zhang Yan. At that time, Zhang Jiao believed that if he really died before he could leave the army as predicted by divination, Zhang Yan would be able to inherit his legacy and lead the Yellow Turban Army to continue to find trouble with the Han court until the Han court was torn apart. And Zhang Jiao's wish at that time was just to disturb the Han Dynasty, and he didn't think about becoming emperor, so he didn't care if Zhang Yan was ambitious or not, and whether he would replace him.

It's just that with the sudden arrival of Liang Xu, the wheel of history has deviated more and more from the original track. Zhang Yan, who was supposed to inherit Zhang Jiao's legacy, is now thinking about replacing Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Jiao was in a state of divination at this time, and although his eyes were closed, his eyelids still revealed a slight white light.

Zhang Yan looked at Zhang Jiao's weird appearance and didn't feel weird, because it was not the first time he had seen Zhang Jiao practicing, but Zhang Jiao's eyelids were shining, which still made Zhang Yan feel very nervous, making Zhang Yan have the illusion of being watched by Zhang Jiao, which made Zhang Yan break out in a cold sweat all over his body.

Zhang Yan didn't even dare to take a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the heart that had jumped to his throat, forcibly suppressed the urge to turn around and run away, moved his steps with difficulty, and approached Zhang Jiao step by step.

Zhang Jiao has not responded, and his breathing is steady.

But Zhang Yan felt more and more difficult to breathe, because the closer he got to Zhang Jiao, the more Zhang Yan didn't dare to make a sound, he was afraid of waking up Zhang Jiao, he was afraid that Zhang Jiao had an unknowable ability to easily subdue himself, so Zhang Yan didn't even dare to make the sound of breathing, he was so nervous that he held his breath and didn't know it.

Gradually, the feeling of suffocation stimulated Zhang Yan's nerves, Zhang Yan couldn't bear it anymore, suddenly pulled out the dagger in his sleeve, and stabbed Zhang Jiao's heart socket.

Zhang Yan's assassination operation went surprisingly smoothly, and it was not until the dagger stabbed into Zhang Jiao's body that Zhang Jiao reacted.

Zhang Jiao suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart, his limbs spasmed because of the severe pain, and his handprints were forcibly broken. Zhang Jiao fully woke up from the divination state, and when he opened his eyes, he found that Zhang Yan appeared in front of him, and Zhang Yan's hands were holding the dagger and stabbing him in the chest.

Zhang Jiao endured the severe pain and asked suspiciously, "Yan'er, why?" ”

Zhang Yan was a little dazed, he was still there

Zhang Yan crossed Zhang Mancheng, lifted the curtain of the tent, and was about to enter the account, when he suddenly stopped, turned back to Zhang Mancheng and said: "Fifth brother, do me a favor and call the second brother over, and it is likely that the second brother will have to take the troops out to deal with this matter later." ”

"Okay!" Zhang Mancheng readily agreed, and ran away briskly as soon as he took a step.

Zhang Yan turned her head to enter the big tent, and the curtain was closed again.

After Zhang Yan entered the tent, he did not continue to approach Zhang Jiao, but stood in place and quietly looked at Zhang Jiao in practice.

At this time, Zhang Yan's mood was a little complicated, with both the excitement of being about to replace it and the fear of failure. Because recently, Zhang Jiao suddenly started practicing again, not only easily played with Lu Zhi's Han army, but also successfully predicted and ambushed Dong Zhuo, who heard that he was going to replace Lu Zhi.

Zhang Yan knew that Zhang Jiao knew divination, and he also coveted this miraculous ability. He had begged Zhang Jiao to teach him this skill, but Zhang Jiao only handed him a blank bamboo slip and asked him if he could see anything. At that time, Zhang Yan replied "no", because he really didn't see anything on the bamboo slips. Zhang Jiao sighed and took the bamboo slip back, and didn't say anything else. Since then, Zhang Yan has determined that Zhang Jiao is hiding his secrets, so he did not pass on the "Taiping Technique" to him. However, Zhang Jiao did not pass on the "Taiping Technique" to his other disciples, so Zhang Yan gradually let go of this knot.

It's just that Zhang Jiao's recent clever calculation made Zhang Yan see the great hope of taking the Han dynasty, if the leader of the Yellow Turban Army is him Zhang Yan, and he also knows the "Taiping Technique", Zhang Yan believes that with his military attainments, he can capture Luoyang within half a year.

Zhang Yan's surname is Chu, and his family was originally a big family in Changshan County, and Chu Yan is the eldest son and grandson of the head of the Chu family. When Chu Yan was young, he especially loved to practice martial arts and read military books, and volunteered to be a general who defended his family and country. There are also enough resources in the family to train this future great general of the Great Han. But the good times didn't last long, and due to the ban of the party, the Chu family was destroyed and wiped out. The loyal servants of the Chu family desperately protected the important people of the Chu family and escaped.

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