Inside and outside Hukou Pass, a group of soldiers dressed in tattered clothes, most of whom were already covered with mud and blood, were constantly cleaning the pass.

These people are naturally the Black Mountain bandit army that broke through Hukou Pass yesterday, of course, they cleaned up the pass, naturally not out of fear that if the corpses were not cleaned up for a long time, there would be a plague, they were like this, completely out of the idea of squeezing the last trace of value out of those Han soldiers.

Don't you see, those corpses that were collected were all naked after being touched naked, and most of them were buried naked by the Black Mountain Bandit Army into a large pit of mass burial?

The reason why this is so is not because Montenegro is poor, some soldiers go out with the army and now they don't even have thick clothes, and they can only find more clothes to wrap their bodies in tattered single clothes, even if the clothes are stained with the blood of the original people. Of course, for most soldiers, clothing is secondary, and it would be even better if other valuable things could be found from the dead bodies of the Han army, or food to fill their stomachs.

Closed, there is a general who is more than thirty years old, fair-skinned, and has delicate facial features, is looking at the west, and thinks deeply, he is the leader of the millions of people in the Black Mountain Bandit Army, and Zhang Yan, the general of the Ping Yan Zhonglang canonized by the Han court. Of course, now with the betrayal of his army, the fig leaf given by the Han Dynasty to the general of the Ping Yan Dynasty was naturally torn apart by him.

Seeing the Hukou Pass under his feet, Zhang Yan's eyes contained a touch of relief, since the rebellion, the Montenegrin Army has had repeated setbacks, and now it has finally won the Hukou Pass, which is really good. At this time, the eldest son county is in sight, north of Yangtou Mountain, half of the party is already in his Zhang Yan's bag.

In fact, since the uprising, the war of the Montenegrin army has not been smooth, although they can use the Taihang Mountain Range to wantonly shuttle and loot in the north, Youzhou, and Jizhou, and even through the Taihang Mountain Range, they can go to Yan, Qingerzhou and even the Sili region south of the Yellow River to plunder, but it is obvious that the timing of their choice to start up again is obviously not good.

At the beginning, Zhang Yan and others wanted to take advantage of the fact that Jizhou repeatedly sent troops to support Youzhou and Erzhou, to attack and plunder Jizhou, the most prosperous in the north, but they were once again beaten by Jizhou Muhuang Fu Song, the first enemy of the original Taiping Road.

Originally, Zhang Yan also considered Youzhou, but if he wanted Youzhou to be poor, there were obviously not many resources that could be looted, and the Han army had gathered a lot of soldiers and horses to deal with Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju in Youzhou, so Youzhou was naturally given up by him. Unlike Bingzhou, Tu Ge and the Southern Xiongnu have been attacking in the northern part of Bingzhou, attracting most of the Han Dynasty's soldiers and horses, which is a good time for their Montenegrin army to fish in troubled waters.

Don't you see, of the 15,000 foot soldiers supported by Huangfu Song, 10,000 of them have fallen to Yanmen County and Dingxiang County in the north of Bingzhou? This is also the reason why Shangdang County, as the essence of the state, faced the attack of the Montenegrin army, and only gave them 5,000 foot soldiers, if it were not for the strength of the Montenegrin army, which might endanger the rear of Taiyuan County, I am afraid that these 5,000 soldiers would not necessarily be given to Shangdang.

Thinking of those Jizhou soldiers, Zhang Yan was angry, the damn Huangfu Song was simply ghostly. The Taiping Road built by the great sage and good teacher all his life was destroyed in his hands, and now, he wants to take advantage of the war in the north to make profits, first in Jizhou to suffer, and then in Bingzhou for a lot of days, if it is not for these 5,000 Jizhou soldiers, with the strength of the Shangdang County to guard Wang Hai, how can there be a considerable number of troops, arrange these three lines of defense that are horns of each other, so that his army can stop for many days?

However, the advantage is in Zhang Yan's place, and the Hukou Pass was still broken by him, but, what should I do next?

Frankly speaking, Zhang Yan didn't think about it, which is also the reason why he didn't send troops immediately after breaking the city yesterday. Now, for Zhang Yan, he has three options.

One of them is to grab a vote and run, this is the easiest, the Hukou Pass west of the Shangdang rich area all robbed, and then go back to Montenegro to continue to be the king of the mountain, if the Han Dynasty pursues, send a large army to press the border, he can't beat it and return to the mountains, when the Han army is in a dilemma, and then surrender, so that the fig leaf of the general can be used again, anyway, he doesn't think that the Han court will be willing to spend unpredictable costs to attack Montenegro.

The second is to leave a heavy army and firmly occupy the Hukou Pass, and in the future, Kou will join the party and enter its county, which is as simple as entering his own back garden.

Third, it is to continue to go deeper to the west, capture Shangdang, and then use Shangdang as a springboard to attack Jinyang, and then contact the Hu people, divide and merge the state, steal half of the state as their own, and use this as the basis to occupy the land and claim the king.

Among them, what Zhang Yan wants to do most is the third one, he wants to be the king of the state, after all, no one will refuse the temptation of power, but he also knows that it is very difficult, so he wants to cooperate with the Hu people. Thinking that the Hu people would be very willing to be in front of them and resist the Han Dynasty for them, and as long as the Hu people agreed to give him cavalry to help him and make up for the biggest deficiency of the Montenegrin army, Zhang Yan was confident that with the elite under his command who had been fighting for the rest of their lives since the Taiping Road incident, they would rely on the land of annexing states to fight against the soldiers and horses of the Han family.

Of course, these are just Zhang Yan's wishful thinking, and the alliance with the Hu people is still a shadowless thing, Zhang Yan does not dare to think deeply, for the sake of today's plan, the first or second strategy, grab enough materials, and then say, if possible, the third strategy, this is also a prudent move.

Therefore, after leaving 5,000 soldiers and horses and the original wounded soldiers to guard Hukou Pass, he himself led about 20,000 foot cavalry out of Hukou Pass, marched westward, and went straight to Changzi County, Shangdang County.

A day later, in a village by the Zhanghe River in Shangdang County, east of Changzi County, a murderous tragedy was being staged, but the voices of men, women, the elderly and the weak shouting for help and begging for mercy, as well as the continuous billowing smoke from the village, fully demonstrated the brutality of the thief army.

"Kill...... Ha ha...... Kill, ......" The Montenegrin bandit army surrounded the village, and not a single mouse could escape, and then more than 2,000 poorly armed Montenegrin soldiers rushed to the peaceful small village on the opposite side.

In the rear of the Montenegrin army, Zhang Yan sat on a horse, with an indifferent face, he was indifferent to the actions of his subordinates, and let those soldiers burn, kill and loot, and do any harm, as long as the loyalty and morale did not disperse.

Because this is exactly the development method of the Montenegrin Army and even their predecessor Taiping Dao, looting villages, burning houses and fields, forcing those Han Shunmin to follow their development, even if the Montenegrin Army has continued for so many years now, but they still have that bandit blood in their bodies, as for governing the place and developing production, it is pure fool's dream to expect most of these guys who are mud legs and illiterate to do it.

The noisy and noisy only lasted for about half an hour, and a man of about thirty years old and five short stature walked out of the village with a few soldiers, came to Zhang Yanma, hugged his fists and said: "Qu Shuai, the village is safe, you can enter it." ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Yan nodded, signaled that he knew, and rode forward, and at the same time, the voices of the man and other generals just now came from behind him.

"Yu Poison, how is the harvest?"

"It's not much, it is estimated that Wang Hai Lao'er has been asked to search for military rations, but the women in this village are good......"

In the middle of the words, there was soon a unique laughter between men, Zhang Yan, who was riding a horse, turned a deaf ear, this scene was already normal for him, and even on the way here, the Montenegrin army had already concocted the same way to sack the two villages. If there is a difference, it is that the armies that sack the villages are different.

For example, it was the deployment of the Black Mountain Army Qu Marshal Yu Yu that ransacked the village just now, but before that, it was the deployment of the two Qu Marshals Bai Huan and Zhenggu. The Montenegrin army is the remnants of the Yellow Turban Moth thieves in Taiping Road, it is purely delusional to expect them to have any military discipline, and Zhang Yan also controls military discipline, they themselves live by looting, what military discipline can they expect? What's more, the army has just been under the Huguan and Hukou Passes, and they have been fighting bloody for so long, and if they don't relax the soldiers, how can they be expected to sell their lives for themselves?

It's just that before Zhang Yan entered the village, the mount under his crotch suddenly hissed, and Zhang Yan's face suddenly showed a look of surprise, and the shock became stronger and stronger, sweeping from all directions in the west. The current Zhang Yan is not a rookie who followed the Taiping Road at the beginning, and he has a lot of experience in the battlefield, so he immediately concluded that they were surrounded by a large force of cavalry, but where did this cavalry come from?

Didn't the soldiers of the state be defeated by the Hu people? Didn't they keep the cavalry to keep an eye on the Hu people, but use them against themselves? No, could it be that this is a reinforcement transferred from the Han Dynasty?

All kinds of questions flashed quickly in Zhang Yan's mind, and soon, he thought of an explanation for his situation, but it was obvious that whether he wanted to get this explanation or not, for him, it didn't have the slightest effect.

"Woo...... Woo woo woo ......" The majestic sound of the horn resounded over and over again in the field, and the dull sound of horses' hooves was everywhere in all directions, shaking the earth violently, making many Black Mountain thieves who knew the strength of the cavalry tremble.

The four fields, which were still empty at the last moment, instantly rolled up a boundless black wave, which was a monstrous wave composed of seemingly countless Han cavalry, rolling and galloping, charging towards them, but no one seemed to be able to stop them.

This cavalry is naturally the cavalry under the command of Fude, consisting of 5,000 Youzhou cavalry and more than 1,000 cavalry from the original Fude headquarters, composed of nearly 7,000 cavalry. I saw that as the vanguard of the Youzhou Raiders, they once again exerted their world-famous nature, like an accurate cutting knife, quickly chiseled through the Black Mountain Bandit Army, and then these 7,000 horsemen shuttled back and forth in the Black Mountain Bandit Army, and directly killed the Black Mountain Thief Formation.

They ransacked the village, naturally thinking that there were not many soldiers and horses in Shangdang County to pose a threat to them, so they did not prepare a suitable formation to deal with potential threats that might arise when they surrounded the village and prevented the people inside from escaping, which naturally gave the Han cavalry an opportunity.

"That's? Youzhou Raid! Zhang Yan looked at the other party's outfit, and soon knew the origin of the other party, he had gone to Youzhou to rob, and he was also afraid of Youzhou Raid, and he knew their strength very well.

At the moment, the Montenegrin army was in chaos, Zhang Yan hurriedly called out to his cronies, formed a formation to resist the Han cavalry and continued to attack, and on the other hand, he decisively ordered the other commanders to lead people to retreat.

The cavalry has a great advantage over the infantry, especially when the infantry does not even have a formation, and the other party is still the Youzhou Assault Cavalry in the top three of the Han Dynasty's combat power, which can't help but make Zhang Yan's strong man break his wrist.

Retreating now will undoubtedly cause great losses to the Montenegrin army, especially in the villages, there are still many more than 2,000 soldiers who have not disappeared and have not yet understood what is happening outside, as the main force of the Montenegrin army retreats, they will definitely become the meal of the Han cavalry.

However, Zhang Yan couldn't help it, if the Han army attacked with foot soldiers, he would definitely die to the death, but if it was a cavalry, then forget it. Of course, if possible, Zhang Yan also wanted to use cavalry against the Han cavalry, but it was obvious that he, who was known as "100,000 people", had more than 2,000 horses in the whole army, and among them, there were more than 1,000 good horses that could really form qualified cavalry.

Zhang Yan is naturally very clear about the strength of his cavalry, and it is okay to fight a smooth battle in peacetime, reconnoiter and pursue the enemy, and expect them to fight hand-to-hand with the elite cavalry of the Han army, and it would be a miracle to be able to retreat. This is also why Zhang Yan has the idea of occupying half of the state and looking for opportunities to cooperate with the Hu people, but he doesn't have many cavalry.

Although the horses in the north, Zhang Yan will definitely be able to get more horses if he goes all out, but this does not mean that the Montenegrin army has a lot of cavalry. After all, raising cavalry costs a lot of money, and most of the Black Mountain Army is still thinking about food, so don't expect Zhang Yan to come up with much to expand the cavalry.

Therefore, as far as Zhang Yan is concerned, if he has the opportunity, he can only use the strength of Hu Cai to have the possibility of fighting with the Han army in northern Xinjiang, otherwise he wants to rely on the flesh and blood of the infantry to fight against the Han cavalry, and the chance of victory is really very small. These Black Mountain Army, not the Han Army, not to mention whether they have the willpower to resist in the face of the charging cavalry, let's just say that they are not as familiar with the Han as the Han and master the military formation, and can rely on the formation of rejecting horses and other formations to deal with the cavalry, which is doomed to Zhang Yan's plot to fail.

An escape battle, although the result was expected by the Han cavalry, but there were also some surprises, they thought that they would encounter the stubborn resistance of the Montenegrin bandit army, and they would have to pay a lot of price, but they didn't expect that these Montenegrin thieves were so cowardly, and they withdrew after the battle.

However, they thought that they would be able to escape in this way, but they were too simple, and at that moment, the Han cavalry lord divided Xu Rong into two thousand horsemen and rushed to the village that was swept by the black mountain thieves to deal with those evil thieves.

The thieves were not in good clothes, or they were bloodied, or their clothes were bulging, and they knew what they had done without asking. Therefore, Xu Rong, who had already received Fude's instructions, showed no mercy to these evil pawns, and ordered the two thousand Youzhou raiders who attacked to leave nothing behind the evil pawns in the village.

And Xu Rong himself led another 4,000 horsemen, dead behind the Black Mountain Bandit Army, because in front of their escape route, more than 10,000 Han army foot soldiers, according to the plan, should now be in Fude to lead the following formation.