At this time, Zhu Wei's main army of the Northern Expedition had also converged with Pang Yan's Xionglu camp, and Zhu Wei's army formed a large area of encirclement coalition army Dazhai facing Liyang City with the help of Yuan Shang's original camp.

After all, Zhu Wei's current military strength has reached nearly 200,000 after adding the Xiong Lu battalion, so the camp spread out in this way will naturally occupy a large range.

Of course, Zhu Wei was also very careful about the place he chose to build the camp, and naturally he would not give Yuan Shang the opportunity to burn the company camp, uh, in fact, when Yuan Shang chose the camp, he also prevented the possibility of being burned by Zhu Wei's army, and now Zhu Weijun basically occupies these Yuan army camps for his own use, so naturally there will be no such problem.

And as time slowly passed, a news from Yecheng couldn't help but surprise Yuan Shang, it turned out that when Zhu Weijun and Yuan Shangjun were gathering troops on the Liyang side for a hard-fought battle, Yecheng encountered a sneak attack by Zhu Weijun.

At the same time, according to the urgent letter from Yecheng, Yecheng was already a little unable to resist, because Zhu Weijun deceived a gate in Yecheng at the beginning, and now Yuan Shaojun in Yecheng can only rely on the inner city to defend, but Zhu Weijun's offensive is extremely strong, and the inner city will not last long.

The army that attacked Yecheng was an army of nearly 40,000 composed of Wei Yan's Jingnan battalion and Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army after the successful capture of Jinyang City in Taiyuan County, Bingzhou.

Previously, Wei Yan and Zhang Yan joined forces to besiege Jinyang City, even if Gao Gan intended to defend it, he could not resist it in the face of Zhang Yan's strong attack that he wanted to perform.

As for Wei Yan, he still wanted to preserve his strength at the beginning and wait to participate in the battle on Luoyang's side, but he didn't expect the battle situation in Luoyang to change too quickly, Cao Cao turned from Tiger Prison Pass to attack Dagu Pass, but was defeated by Zhu Weijun's anti-ambush, thus withdrawing to Xudu.

And Yuan Shao, who was on the north bank of the Yellow River, also took the initiative to withdraw his troops back to Yecheng after discovering that Cao Cao had withdrawn his troops, so that the battle situation on the Luoyang side was basically over.

Wei Yan naturally couldn't get any war on Luoyang's side, so Wei Yan also put his focus back on the war in Jinyang City, and this time Wei Yan didn't play soy sauce.

As a result, the high-ranking cadres who had been forced into the inner city of Jinyang by Wei Yan and Zhang Yan were faced with Wei Yan who was once again attentive to the battle of Jinyang and Zhang Yan, who had always been very attentive, and finally couldn't resist and killed themselves in Jinyang City.

It was almost when Zhu Wei sent troops to attack Cao Cao in Puyang City, and Wei Yan and Zhang Yan successfully captured Jinyang City.

It's just that they didn't get Zhu Weijun's next military order, so they had to continue to stay on the side of Jinyang City, and then move the population of Montenegro to settle in Jinyang.

However, with the end of the battle between Wei Yan and Zhang Yan to attack Jinyang City, the relationship between the two sides has also improved a lot.

Well, there is also a process of not fighting and not getting acquainted, anyway, Wei Yan subdued Zhang Yan and many Montenegrin generals under Zhang Yan in terms of force, but this also made Zhang Yan and other Montenegrin thieves admire Wei Yan's strength, so they have more respect for Zhu Wei in their hearts.

Of course, at this time, there are not many Montenegrin thief generals under Zhang Yan who can leave a name in history, and now it is a Montenegrin thief general recorded in the history books that Guo Daxian and Li Damu can be regarded as the Montenegrin thief generals.

And Zhang Yan originally relied on his own ability, although he was attached to Zhu Wei's name, but he still looked down on Zhu Wei, the young lord who rose in the south, after all, Zhang Yan was also the leader of the Montenegrin Army who dominated the north, and he actually underestimated the southern generals in his heart.

But now compared with Wei Yan, Zhang Yan found that there seemed to be a big gap between him and Wei Yan.

Originally, Zhang Yan thought that Wei Yan should be regarded as one of the best figures in Zhu Wei's army, but he was a little aggrieved for Wei Yan, how could a person with such strength be made a partial army by the Zhu Wei faction?

It is said that a general like Wei Yan should naturally be placed on the main battlefield in Luoyang.

And Wei Yan didn't dare to be too proud at this time, so he told the truth that there were actually many stronger characters in Zhu Wei's army than him, such as Pang Yan, Huang Zhong, and Tai Shici, even if he needed to look up.

In addition, there are Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, Gan Ning and others, which also made Wei Yan can only say that he is on a par with himself, so now Wei Yan can be valued by Zhu Wei and lead the first army of Jingnan Battalion, which is already Zhu Wei's value for him.

This made Zhang Yan's heart even more surprised, originally he felt that he was far inferior to Wei Yan, but he didn't expect that there were so many people above Wei Yan who made Wei Yan also convinced, and there were so many people who could make Wei Yan admit that his strength was similar, so Zhu Weijun was too strong.

In this way, the little careful thinking that was originally hidden in Zhang Yan's heart was directly resolved.

At the same time, after Wei Yan and Zhang Yan's good news to Zhu Wei was transmitted, although Zhu Wei did not arrange their next move, he also informed Zhu Weijun of some of the current progress.

When Zhang Yan heard that Zhu Weijun had gone to conquer Cao Cao and had already fled Cao ** to Puyang, he couldn't help but be a little shocked by Zhu Weijun's toughness.

It's just that after Wei Yan learned about Zhu Weijun's military situation, he was not willing to be idle in Jinyang, and couldn't help but think about what he could do at this stage and what opportunities he could get to make meritorious contributions.

Then after thinking about it, Wei Yan thought of an adventurous idea, that is, to attack Yecheng secretly.

It's just that Yuan Shao has more than 100,000 troops on Yecheng's side after all, and Wei Yan's Jingnan battalion is now only 14,000 or 5,000 people, so Wei Yan moved his mind carefully, so he also found Zhang Yan, hoping to join Zhang Yan to send troops to attack Yecheng.

It just so happens that Zhang Yan is the head snake on the Yizhou side, and with Zhang Yan's familiarity with Taihang Mountain, it is completely possible for the two of them to move from Taihang Mountain to the vicinity of Yecheng, so as to find an opportunity to sneak attack Yecheng.

In fact, in 193 AD, when Yuan Shao led his army north to fight against Gongsun Zhan, he united more than ten troops such as Zhang Yan and Yu Poison of the Montenegrin Army to attack Yuan Shao's old nest Yecheng.

At that time, Hu Shouce rebelled against the Yecheng soldiers of Wei County, and with the assistance of Zhang Yan, Yu Poison and other black mountain thieves, he really succeeded in capturing Yecheng and killed Yuan Shao's Taishou Sucheng who stayed in Yecheng.

If it weren't for a Montenegrin thief general named Tao Sheng, who betrayed the Montenegrin coalition at a critical time and privately escorted Yuan Shao's family to escape from Yecheng, I was afraid that Yuan Shao's family would have died a lot at that time.

It was only later that Yuan Shao led the army to counterattack, and fought fiercely with Yu Poison's army in Cangyan Valley, Chaoge Luchang Mountain, and broke the Black Mountain Army of Yu Poison's Department in a battle, killed Yu Poison, Hushou and others, and completely recaptured Yecheng.

Later, Yuan Shao took advantage of the situation to besiege the Montenegrin bandits, killed the Black Mountain thieves such as Zuo Zhangba, and defeated Liu Shi, Qingniujiao, Huanglong, Zuo Xiao, Guo Daxian, Li Damu, Yu Yigen and other Montenegrin bandits, and the population in Montenegro was also massacred by Yuan Shao.

At that time, Zhang Yan fought against Lu Bu, who was attached to Yuan Shao's army, in the territory of Changshan State, and the two sides fought for many days, and finally fought both defeats, and then each of them set up their own troops.

It can be said that Zhang Yan was also established as the leader of the remnants of the Montenegrin Army after this, thus truly commanding the Montenegrin Army.

But it was also at this time that the Montenegrin Army gradually entered a period of weakness, because the main force of the Montenegrin Army had been encircled and suppressed by Yuan Shao before, and Zhang Yan himself also lost a lot of troops in the Battle of Changshan.

But now Wei Yan wants to move Zhang Yan again, hoping that the two will join forces together to attack Yecheng......