Chapter 166: Under the City of Jinyang
"This guy is really as light as a swallow, and he let him run away like this. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" Seeing Zhang Yan flee, Gan Ning couldn't help but stomp his feet and scold.
However, winning this battle is already a relatively ideal result, as for capturing Zhang Yan, it is indeed an unavoidable thing, it is best to be caught, and there is no need to lose if you can't catch it.
Gan Ning naturally knew this section well, so he immediately ordered to clean up the battlefield, collect and surrender troops, clean up the armor and equipment discarded by the enemy soldiers, load several large carts, and then swaggered back to the city.
And Zhang Yan ran all the way, until dozens of miles away did not stop, and ordered people to collect the fleeing sergeants, and finally counted the number of people, 70,000 troops were left less than 10,000, and the remaining 60,000 people were either killed and burned, or surrendered, or fled, this 10,000 army because of the defeat, is now already panicked, has no will to fight, and morale is extremely low.
"Dashuai, where are we going now?" Although he knew that Zhang Yan had a violent temper, Zhang Fan, the general of the pro-soldiers around him, still had to ask, because after all, this was related to the future of the 10,000 surviving soldiers.
"Hmph, kill me back, I want to find Gan Ning and fight again, this time I must defeat him with dignity!" Zhang Yan suffered this defeat, and she couldn't hold her face very much, and said loudly.
However, the soldiers under his command were now frightened when they heard the name Gan Ning, and hurriedly knelt down and asked Zhang Yan to lead the army back to Taiyuan first, and wait until the army was assembled and enough grain and grass were raised before considering dealing with Gan Ning.
In fact, Zhang Yan is just angry words, he naturally knows the horror of this Gan Ning better than the soldiers under his command, just one close, his weapons were knocked away, and they were all beaten so that his tiger mouth burst, spitting blood, such a character is probably not much worse than Lu Bu, fortunately he saw that the situation was not good, and immediately turned around and fled, if he hesitated for a moment, I am afraid that waiting for his fate will either be captured or killed.
"Hmph, since that's the case, then spare Gan Ning's house for the time being, let's go back to Taiyuan first, I have asked for help from the brothers of Shangjun and Xihe County, including the Xiongnu royal court, it is estimated that their army should soon arrive in Taiyuan, and at that time our army will work together, first break the party, capture Liu He alive, and then unite Gongsun Bogui to sweep Youzhou, and then I will occupy Guanzhong along Liu He's road, and Gongsun Bogui will block Yuan Shao for me in Hebei, what a beautiful thing it should be."
Zhang Yan began to turn his anger into joy, imagining the scene of dividing one side and dominating the pass, and felt that he had motivation, so he led the army to return to Taiyuan County to govern Jinyang City regardless of fatigue.
There are about 500 miles from the eldest son to Taiyuan, Zhang Yan led his soldiers to run a long distance, tired and hungry, he ate and lived among the people, and finally came to Jinyang City after three days of marching.
"Haha, I, Zhang Yan, are finally back, Liu and Xiao'er, although I fell for your trick this time and retreated in defeat, but as long as I wait for the opportunity, I will definitely make a comeback, and in a few days, the reinforcements from Shangjun and Xihe will arrive, they are united with nearly 100,000 troops, plus 10,000 Hun cavalry, I want to see what you have to defend here?"
Zhang Yan looked at the head of the city, laughed, and just wanted to call the door, but he was suddenly stunned, because he saw that the flag on the head of the city was different from before.
"W-what the fuck is going on? Could it be that this kid Lei Gong dares to change the flag casually? No, this is absolutely impossible, since this is the case, this proves that Jinyang City has changed owners. ”
Thinking of this, Zhang Yan suddenly smiled wryly, and thought silently: "This can't be true, right?" If that's the case, I, Zhang Yanke, will really become a lost dog. Although I was elected as the big leader by the Black Mountain Heroes, but Shangdang and Taiyuan are my fundamental places, if I lose these two counties, how can the Black Mountain Heroes obey me again, even if it is superficially to obey me and invite me to their territory, then I am afraid that I will also become a puppet like the current little emperor, but what is the point of living like that? It's better to be a little thief. ”
However, Zhang Yan still decided to give it a try, so he ordered his own soldiers around him to open the city gate.
And the fact is really just like what Zhang Yan was worried about, the city just sounded the sound of the city, and saw the arrows on the city, and then a person stood proudly on the head of the city, and shouted: "Now Jinyang City has surrendered to the imperial court, General Zhang, you are now homeless, you and your family are also in my Jinyang City, now you are cornered, surrender quickly, as long as you surrender, I guarantee that you will get very generous treatment, as long as you are willing to assist me wholeheartedly, you will be a marquis in the future, It is not impossible to seal the wife and shade. ”
"Liu He! Sure enough, it's you, why did you get to my Taiyuan? Aren't you in the party? I understand, no wonder I didn't see you in Shangdang before, it turns out that you have long been out of Shangdang, and after my army went to Shangdang, you moved troops from Youzhou again, plotting against my Taiyuan, what a poisonous plan to divert the tiger from the mountain! Zhang obeyed, but he wanted me to surrender, which is impossible, let's see. ”
Zhang Yan automatically made up for the reason why Liu He came to Jinyang, mainly because he mobilized a lot of soldiers and horses from Liu Yu in Youzhou, so he didn't dare to stay and attack Jinyang, and immediately led the army to flee to the west, in fact, he could also flee to Yanmen further north, although it did not belong to him completely, but there were also some bandits operating there, and if he was really forced to be in a hurry, he could escape directly to the Xiongnu through Yanmen Pass, but this time Zhang Yan did not want to escape, but wanted to "recover" with the help of the power of Shangjun and Xihe thieves Jinyang and Shangdang.
Along the way, Zhang Yan's army fled again, and by the time he arrived in Pingtao (present-day Wenshui, Shanxi), there were less than 5,000 of the 10,000 troops left, but fortunately he met the thieves led by Zhang Baiqi here.
This white horse was originally active in the Hongnong area, and Zhang Ji's army against each other, and later Cao Cao led the army to occupy Hongnong, Zhang Baiqi was not an opponent, so he crossed the river from Hongnong, slipped to the east of the river, but later because of the discord with the white wave thieves in the east of the river, and entered Xihe County through the east of the river, and gradually annexed the local thief army, controlled the southern area of Xihe County, and appointed himself as the Taishou of the West River, and united with the Xiongnu, forming a considerable force, with forty or fifty thousand people under his command, this time I heard that Zhang Yan, the commander-in-chief of the Montenegrin Army, was in trouble, He personally led an army of 30,000 people, and together with more than 20,000 people under the command of Bai Que, the head of the thief in Shangjun, set out from Zhilishi in Xihe County to jointly rescue Zhang Yan.
Zhang Yan met his own people when he was down, and his heart was naturally happy, when he became brothers with the two, and then led Zhang Baiqi, Baique and about 60,000 soldiers under his command to Jinyang together, and the fleeing Montenegrin army joined one after another along the way, and when he came to Jinyang more than ten miles away, the soldiers under the command of Zhang Yan had reached nearly 70,000.