Shouchun is the largest city in Yangzhou, with a long history, once Yuan Shao's younger brother, that is, Yuan Xi's uncle Yuan Shu was called emperor here, and was also exterminated by Cao Cao and Liu Bei here. Today, on the contrary, Yuan Tan was ordered by Yuan Xi to attack Shouchun. Yuan Tan's ability to lead troops is actually quite strong, he, like Yuan Xi, relied on his own strength to pacify Qingzhou, but he was repeatedly defeated by the hands of Tibetan tyrants, which disappointed Yuan Shao.

Now Yuan Tan, as the governor of Qingxu, is also the top boss of the Tibetan tyrant, although the Tibetan tyrant has offended himself before, he did not embarrass him, and under the persuasion of Xin Ping, he respected Zhang Yan, Zangba, Sun Guan and others very much. Guo Tu said: "The Shouchun guard general is Cao Cao's confidant general Xiahoudun, this person is brave, but the strategy is insufficient, he will definitely not stick to Shouchun City, but take the initiative to attack." The governor of Dadu can send people to deceive and deceive Xiahoudun from Shouchun, and then our army will secretly attack Shouchun, and the major event can be decided. ”

Xin Ping and Guo Tu are Yuan Tan's most loyal followers and the most important strategists, and their strategies are generally adopted, especially this one, which seems to be aimed specifically at a brainless general like Xiahoudun. However, in order to express his courtesy corporal and respect everyone's opinions, Yuan Tan symbolically asked the generals what they meant.

Zangba laughed secretly in his heart, this is too underestimating Xiahou Dun, hesitating and not knowing whether to say it or not, after all, he beat Yuan Tan badly enough, maybe this metropolitan governor is just polite on the surface. Zhang Yan, as the first batch of generals who followed Yuan Xi, although they were both thieves, their status was not comparable to that of Tibetan tyrants and others, and bluntly admonished: "Governor Dadu, although Guo's plan to join the army is wonderful, it is enough to make Xiahou scheming." However, Xiahoudun still has Li Dian and Liu Ye under him, and it may not be easy to capture Shouchun so easily! ”

Guo Tu didn't expect Zhang Yan to refute himself, and suddenly felt that he had lost face, he didn't care about the relationship between Zhang Yan and Yuan Xi, and sneered angrily: "Then General Zhang has any way to win Shouchun?" Zhang Yan naturally knew Guo Tu's virtues, and now that he was under Yuan Tan's hands, it was not easy to offend Yuan Tan's henchmen too much, but he did not compromise, and continued: "I just think that Guo Gong's strategy should be used to deal with Xiahoudun, not to Shouchun, as long as Xiahoudun is defeated first, our army will take the initiative!" ”

Yuan Tan also knew that Zhang Yan was a confidant general under Yuan Xi, and what he said was reasonable, so he stopped the two from arguing and said: "You two don't want to argue, you haven't fought the enemy yet, you have a dispute internally, how to break the enemy, according to the public rules, first deceive and deceive Xiahoudun, and then defeat Xiahoudun first and then take Shouchun." Guo Tu saw Yuan Tan speak, and it was not easy to say anything, and everyone began to deploy as planned.

Zhang Yan, as a vanguard general, led 10,000 Montenegrin troops to Shouchun to call for Xiahoudun. Seeing that Zhang Yan had few soldiers, Xiahoudun fought against Zhang Yan despite the opposition of Li Dian and Liu Ye. The Montenegrin army was armed with black machetes and was an elite unit under Yuan Xi. Xiahoudun still underestimated this Montenegrin army, especially the unique machete, which was particularly sharp, and it was easy to cut off the halberd of the Cao army, and Xiahoudun's 30,000 Cao army was actually not the opponent of the 10,000 Montenegrin army.

Li Dian was still sharp-eyed, and soon found that the Montenegrin army was agile and sharp, but the defense was extremely poor, and he suggested Xiahou Dun: "General Xiahou, although the Montenegrin army is fierce, it lacks a shield, if you use a bow and arrow to fight back, the Montenegrin army will definitely suffer heavy casualties." Xiahou was overjoyed, and ordered the shield soldiers to be in front to resist the machetes of the Montenegrin army, although it was still difficult to resist, but then ordered the archers to release arrows, the Montenegrin army had no armor, and a large number of casualties were killed, Zhang Yan ordered the Montenegrin army to retreat quickly.

The Montenegrin army moved quickly, and the infantry of the Cao army was left behind for a while, and Xiahoudun finally defeated the Yuan army once, of course, he would not let go of such an opportunity, and rushed to the front with the cavalry. The Montenegrin army has undergone special training in the mountains and forests, and its biggest characteristics are that it runs fast and has good endurance, and the cavalry team is only slowly approaching with a slight advantage.

Xiahoudun finally caught up with the Black Mountain Army, and smiled at Zhang Yan: "Zhang Yan, look where you are running, the two-legged person still wants to compete with the four-legged horse, I don't know if you should laugh at you for being stupid or stupid?" "Yuan Tan's ambush is indeed not far away, but in order to chase after him, Xiahoudun actually only brought a few thousand cavalry, and he can completely deal with it, so he still dragged Xiahoudun and attracted Cao's army.

Zhang Yan laughed and said: "One-eyed, you are really a blind man, and you actually brought this little bit of people to chase me, it is really beyond your strength." Brothers, chop me off on the horse's feet and capture Xiahoudun alive! At this time, Xiahoudun realized that he had rushed too fast, but now that he was retreating, of course the Montenegrin army could not catch up, but it was too faceless to do so, and he was a cavalryman, although there were few people, he could also fight with the Montenegrin army, and his army would soon catch up. Thinking so, Xiahoudun led his troops to charge the Montenegrin army, hoping to break the formation of the Montenegrin army at one time.

Xiahoudun once again underestimated the machete of the Montenegrin army, and the Montenegrin army had already had a way to deal with cavalry, that is, to cut off the horse's legs. The Montenegrin army watched the Cao cavalry rush forward, dodged the spears of the Cao soldiers, and then cut off the horse's legs with a knife, and the Cao army knights lost their horses and fell to the ground, which was killed by the Montenegrin army. There are also soldiers of the Montenegrin Army with great strength who directly slash at the knights who rushed over, directly slashing the spears, and killing people and horses together.

The forward troops of the Cao army were frustrated, and the cavalry behind them were directly tripped and fell to the ground, and the Montenegrin army rushed over excitedly, and Xiahoudun prepared to retreat. Li Dian was worried about Xiahoudun's safety, and he also caught up quickly, and happened to see Xiahoudun's defeat, and shouted: "The general is panicking, Li Dian is coming!" ”

Zhang Yan was not in a hurry, what the Black Mountain Army was most afraid of was the archers of the other party, and now the main force of the Cao army had just arrived, but he did not continue to fight with Xiahoudun, and still threatened: "Xiahoudun, spare your dog's life this time." Next time, don't mess with you Grandpa Zhang Yan, brothers, retreat. ”

Xiahoudun was defeated in the hands of Zhang Yan just now, and he was very unhappy, and now that his army had arrived, he didn't believe that the endurance of the Montenegrin army was so good, and ordered Li Dian to continue the pursuit and archery. Li Dian persuaded: "Our army is far away from the city, if the other party has ambush soldiers, my army may not be good, it is better to withdraw first!" Xiahoudun remembered that he was introduced into the woods by Zhuge Liang last time, and then fell into an ambush, so he let go of the obsession in his heart and withdrew his troops first.

Zhang Yan actually wanted to lure Cao's army away from Shouchun further, so that he would have a chance to exterminate Xiahoudun and lead out the Shouchun defenders to facilitate the capture of Shouchun. Zangba and Sun Guan had been waiting impatiently, if it weren't for the main force of the Cao army, they would have come out to ambush the Cao army a long time ago. Now seeing the retreat of the Cao army, he directly killed from both sides, Zhang Yan saw the Taishan army killed, not to be outdone, turned around, and killed the Cao army again.

Cao's army was in chaos, and Xiahoudun and Li Dian did not know the reality of Yuan's army, so they did not dare to fight, so they could only flee back to the direction of Shouchun. Zhang Yan, Zangba, and Sun Guan chased and killed all the way, and got countless burdens from Cao Jun, but fortunately, Liu Ye was afraid that Xiahoudun and Li Dian would fall for Yuan's tricks, so he sent someone to pick up the two and return to the city. Zhang Yan, Zangba, and Sun Guan also stopped the pursuit, returned to see Yuan Tan, and told the truth about the battle.

Yuan Tan was overjoyed, and praised Zhang Yan for having the style of a general and being able to adapt to changes. Zhang Yan has been under Yuan Xi's hands for a long time, and he has also learned to share the credit with others, Zhang Yan thanked: "The Metropolitan Governor praised it, this time the big victory over Cao Jun, Guo Gong is the biggest hero, without Guo Gong's ingenious arrangement, naturally he can't easily defeat Cao Jun." Of course, if General Xuangao and General Zhongtai had not ambushed Cao's army in time, they would definitely not have been able to defeat Cao's army. The generals were impressed by Zhang Yan's humility, especially Guo Tu, who didn't expect Zhang Yan to praise himself as the greatest hero, and suddenly felt ashamed and apologized for deliberately embarrassing Zhang Yan that day. Zhang Yan didn't expect Guo Tu to apologize to him, and immediately expressed his sincerity, shook hands with him, and the generals of the Qingxu Legion led by Yuan Tan also began to live in harmony and work together to attack Shouchun.