Of course, Zhang Yan is not the little star Zhang Mouyu later, the Three Kingdoms is a pure man, formerly known as Chu Yan, Changshan Zhendingren, in other words, he is Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong's fellow countrymen, maybe they knew each other before.

In the first year of Zhongping, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, Chu Yan gathered a group of teenagers as robbers, and attacked in the mountains and rivers, and when he returned to Zhentime, the number of troops had reached more than 10,000 people. In the second year of Zhongping, Zhang Niujiao, a native of Boling, also gathered a group of people, proclaimed himself a general, and joined forces with Chu Yan. Chu Yan elected Zhang Niujiao as the leader, marched to attack the gall Tao, Zhang Niujiao was shot by a stray arrow, was seriously wounded, and before dying, ordered his subordinates to honor Chu Yan as the leader. After Zhang Niujiao's death, everyone embraced Chu Yan as the leader, so Chu Yan changed his surname to Zhang and called Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan is as light as a swallow and brave and good at fighting, so the army calls him "Feiyan (has no relationship with Zhao Feiyan)". Later, Zhang Yan's troops continued to grow, and the rebels in Changshan, Zhaojun, Zhongshan, Shangdang, Hanoi and other places contacted each other, and the small leaders of the rebels, Sun Qing, Wang Dang and others, all brought their subordinates to Zhang Yan's command, and Zhang Yan's troops grew to nearly one million people, known as the "Black Mountain Army". The counties and counties north of the Yellow River were all harassed, but the imperial court was unable to send troops to encircle and suppress them. So, Zhang Yan sent an envoy to the capital Luoyang and wrote to the imperial court to ask for surrender. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty then appointed Zhang Yan as the general of the Pingnan Zhonglang, so that he could manage the administrative and public security affairs of the mountainous areas north of the Yellow River, recommend filial piety to the imperial court every year, and send officials to Luoyang to report.

In the first year of Chuping (190), Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, and the world rose up to fight, so Zhang Yan led his troops to form an alliance with all the princes. In the second year of the first peace, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Chan competed for Jizhou, and Zhang Yan sent Du Chang and others to lead troops to help Gongsun Zhan, but was finally defeated by Yuan Shao, and Zhang Yan's subordinates dispersed slightly. In the fourth year of Chuping (193), Yuan Shao wiped out the Montenegrin army in the territory, and then united with the main forces of Lu Bu and Zhang Yan to start a fierce battle in Changshan. At that time, Zhang Yan had tens of thousands of elite soldiers and thousands of war horses. The two sides fought for more than ten days, although Zhang Yanjun suffered many casualties, Yuan Shaojun also felt tired, so the two sides retreated.

It turned out that in that life, in March of the fourth year of Jian'an (199), when Yuan Shao attacked Gongsun Zhan, Zhang Yan and Gongsun Xu led 100,000 troops, and rescued Gongsun Chan in three ways, Zhang Yan's reinforcements had not yet arrived, Gongsun Chan secretly sent a messenger to send a letter to Gongsun Zhan, asking him to lead 5,000 iron horsemen to ambush in the low-lying areas in the north, and ignite the fire as a signal, Gongsun Zhan planned to go out of the city to attack Yuan Shao's besieging troops. As a result, Gongsun Chan was defeated, and Gongsun Xu was killed. In the ninth year of Jian'an (204), Cao Cao pacified the Yuan group in Hebei. In April, Cao Cao left Cao Hong to continue the attack on Yecheng, personally led the army to attack Yin Kai, defeated Yin Kai and returned to the division. Zhang Yan sent an envoy to meet Cao Cao and asked to send troops to assist Cao Cao in attacking the Yuan brothers, and Cao Cao appointed him as the general of Pingbei. In April of the tenth year of Jian'an (205), Zhang Yan led more than 100,000 of his troops to surrender to Cao Cao. Cao Cao named Zhang Yan as the Marquis of Anguo Pavilion, with 500 households, and ordered him to lead the army to Yecheng to garrison.

And now in this 197 year, Zhang Yan is dealing with Yuan Shao with Gongsun Zhan, fighting life and death, making a lot of trouble, but Yuan Shao obviously has the upper hand, if Zhang Yan does not occupy the geographical advantage of Taihang Mountain, he would have been beaten by Yuan Shao a long time ago.

Zhang Yan allocated 20,000 horses to accept the command of Liao Hua and Guan Hai, the generals under Wei Yan, formed a mountain division, and after training, he harassed the Southern Xiongnu and Yuan armies everywhere, and beat the states everywhere.

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During the exercise, Wei Yan made certain adjustments to physical training and actual combat training.

In terms of physical training, Wei Yan imitated the training method of Yue Fei in later generations, so that the soldiers under his command had to wear armor and hold weapons in all training such as running, climbing obstacles, jumping trenches, catching and fighting, and training fighting skills, and even had to carry a weight on their backs when running.

The reason why Wei Yan put forward the concept of actual combat training is the same as what he did when he was dealing with the college entrance examination in high school before, every big exam, small test, test or even just doing homework in high school, he treated it as the college entrance examination and took it seriously, and when he got to the college entrance examination room, he played like a fish in water and was admitted to a nationally renowned key university with excellent results, but he was confused and decadent during his college years.

He also introduced the elimination system, in the simulation of actual combat confrontation, the two armies picked up the white ash stained wooden sticks or wooden knives to fight, everything stained with two white spots on the body will be withdrawn, with the most remnants and the main general surviving the side wins, there is meat to eat. In the running training, the team as a collective, if one person lags behind, the whole team will be punished, which is not only the elimination system to stimulate their fighting spirit, but also let the soldiers develop the spirit of unity and mutual assistance of "not abandoning and not giving up".

He also asked each team to screen out the most brave soldiers, arrange them in the front row of each array, deliberately strengthen their force, and then according to their usual training, give them the rank of 'quasi-samurai' to "great samurai", so that these illiterate but brave people can get the opportunity to develop, let them rush to be the first row of warriors, take pride in the front row of the battle array, and then rely on their strong force, strong personal assault ability, when the two armies are facing each other, break into the enemy formation, It is equivalent to transforming one Wei Yan's assault into tens of millions of Wei Yan's assaults.

Wei Yan arranged the training situation and asked all the soldiers to strictly implement it, because there were countless enemies outside, Wei Yan didn't have time to spend a few years slowly and leisurely training an elite soldier, he had to temper an elite soldier in half a year or even three months.

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In the following time, Wei Yan handed over the affairs of the military to Xu Shu with full authority, and he went straight to Cai Yan.

In the afternoon of this day, the autumn sun was obscured by the clouds, the autumn wind blew slowly, and the green leaves on the trees that covered the sky began to slowly turn yellow, swinging with the autumn wind, falling from time to time, rolling in the wind, withering to the ground, and being crushed by Wei Yan's foot.

Cai Yan looked at the leaves that fell in the wind stupidly, and was sadly lamenting his life experience, seeing that the yellow leaves were crushed by Wei Yan's foot, he couldn't help but say coquettishly: "Why doesn't the general walk well, but he wants to crush the leaves?" ”

Wei Yan looked at Cai Yan's expression, knew that this female Wenqing began to be sad again, and was sighing again, turned around to look at the autumn rain that had begun to rain outside, and chanted: "The autumn flowers are bleak and the autumn grass is yellow, the autumn lights are long and the autumn nights are long, and I already feel that the autumn frost and autumn are endless, and the wind and rain help the desolation!" ”

Aren't you Cai Yan sad in the autumn, I'll let you be sad with Lin Daiyu endlessly!

The sentimental Cai Yan has a scene in front of her eyes: the autumn flowers are bleak and withered, the autumn grass has withered and yellowed, if the autumn night is so long under the bright and dim lights, the decaying autumn sound outside the window is endless, but the oblique wind and cold rain come to fuel the desolation in her heart, thinking of this, her heart is more desolate, her face is more sad, and she is a resentful woman.