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In the stretching Taihang Mountain, the Black Mountain thieves welcomed dozens of visitors from afar.

These guests were under the command of General Wei Deng Ji, and the two were the Guoyi general Che Huang and Jingzhao Yin Tianchou in the Dangkou army.

For the Black Mountain thieves, Che Huang is an old acquaintance, but Tian Chou is the first time he has seen him.

This Wen Yiwu has followed Deng Ji for a long time, and he is a useful henchman, and sending them as an envoy only shows Deng Mu's peace of mind, but looking at the two people kneeling in the guest seat without squinting, Zhang Yan's mood on the main seat is mixed, and all kinds of tastes are indescribable.

The pimple sent two envoys, and I, Zhang Yanfeng, did not dare to slack off.

In the third year of Zhongping, the remnants of the yellow turban root defected, which is only hundreds, the day is not safe, still to feed ten times their own old and weak women and children, panic and seek refuge under their own accounts, for the self-proclaimed pimple, but is a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, in order to be accommodated by Montenegro, still with two jade pendants as tribute, see him and other hardships, or he is soft-hearted for a while, did not accept his courtesy, promised to the banner of Montenegro, let it settle in Taihang.

In the same three years of Zhongping, his family gathered 70,000 people to rob and the taxes escorted to the imperial court by Zhang Yi, the assassin of the state, and fought in the bloody battle of Yu Dao for more than a month, but most of the heads were all found by the pimple of the pseudonym Lei Gong.

In the fourth year of Zhongping, the grain robbery was finally revealed, it was a year and a great drought, the lack of food was tight, the Montenegrin tribes were raging, and their own departments were strong and strong, although the little guy was young, but the people were cunning and stubborn, first defended with fierce soldiers, killed many sons in battle, and then coerced by burning grain, forcing themselves to stop making peace.

After that, the reputation of the pimple child began to gradually reveal to the world, although the elite soldiers under his command were few, but they were really strong. The number of battles is full of hideousness. There are also many borrowing points at home.

Three years of early peace. Deng Pimple finally gave up this thief skin, begged for an official position at the Son of Heaven, abandoned the banner of Montenegro, and went to Luoyang to serve as an official. When I first heard about this, I just thought that I was crazy, and I was both pitiful and funny. At that time, Luoyang suffered several difficulties, which was originally barren, and it was in the whirlpool of confrontation between the Kwantung princes and the Western Liang army. Regardless of whether the two parties go east and west, Deng Pimple is the first to be crushed, and at most he can only rely on others to survive, how can he be happy in Taixing? It's just that the world is unpredictable, and no one can believe that the pimple is actually in the fire, and it will be as stable as a mountain in the top two in the east and west for a few years, not to mention, it can also invade the west in the east and use Luoyang as a capital. Gradually, An'an Henan Zhansi was subordinate to the counties, and the officials still worship the generals. The princes dare not offend, the Son of Heaven can't beg!

Inadvertently, the little pimple that used to be attached to his own flag and seemed to be extinguished at any time in this turbulent world has grown into a tiger standing tall in a state, and has grown to the point that even he needs to look up to the existence.

And he, the male lord who had sheltered the pimples in Taihang, was weak with Gongsun Zhan, and was repeatedly frustrated by Yuan Shao not to say, and after a long time of chaos, people were at ease, and the thieves under his command were also good, and the rest could only shrink in Taihang.

It was unfavorable to fight with Yuan Shao, and the Black Mountain Brigade no longer dared to wantonly plunder in Hebei and Hebei Prefectures, and the rations were sometimes insufficient, and the old, weak, and strong had to be scattered in Taihang to reclaim and plant, which involved a lot of labor.

Now all kinds of thieves who are still begging for a living under the banner of Montenegro, the total number of old and weak men and women is only more than 200,000, and they are involved a lot in the agricultural affairs of various passes, and even Zhang Yan does not know how many strong people can be gathered in the face of war.

The pimple has grown strong, but for several years, he has only seen his closeness disappear and his wings gradually break.

Once Gongsun Chan is defeated, Yuan Shao will completely stabilize the situation and the current embarrassment will only get worse! The situation is always stronger than people, and it is not easy to admit that he is a head lower than his former subordinates, but he can't help but shake his majesty again.

After a lot of emotion, Zhang Yan asked Che Huang, a black mountain thief who had several faces: "The two families are fighting the party together, which is really what Zhang Yan wants!" However, I heard that Mu An moved to Chang'an, and he was about to use troops in Xiliang, so he had time to take care of the north at this time? ”

Che Huang said: "Although Huang Jin is a military general, he is really stupid and embarrassed, he only has a few brute forces on weekdays, and the vulgar people may rush forward in front of the formation, and the military strategy is not well understood. ”

Zhang Yan didn't ignore Tian Chou, who had explained his intentions before, but as a thief, he had too little to do with literati, and he subconsciously didn't want to talk to him much.

Seeing Zhang Yan's eyes turned, Tian Chou made another gesture and replied: "Yuan Shang, a high-ranking cadre in the prefecture, is restraining Yuan Shao, and is trying to solve his worries about Xiliang!" My lord is willing to break the Yuan army with General Zhang, seize the land of the state, Zhang Ping can not rest assured, my lord has no intention of passing through the north, if he can win a battle, the north of the party is determined by the general! ”

There are nine counties in the state, although it is a border land, but today's situation, scattered in the clouds of the two counties of Yanmen and the root of the root Xianbei is not enough to trouble, Xu Huang led the Kou army to defeat the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu are also unable to provoke trouble. The foreigners are worry-free, and the white wave thieves are gradually calming down. The remaining four counties were allowed by the Han Dynasty to live in the Xiongnu, and now the state of the assassin Shi Gaogan actually controls the five counties of Yanmen Dingxiangxi River Taiyuan Shangdang, if you can really break the main force of Gao Gan Yuan Shang in a battle, Yuan Shao can not respond, and then hold the Taihang Pass, do not let Yuan Shao's reinforcements pass through the Taihang Road, and the state will be promising!

The big cake drawn by Tian Chou is undoubtedly sweet, but Zhang Yan can also understand the meaning revealed: Deng Ji's Dangkou army is going north, and it will be withdrawn after only one battle, and whether it can resist Yuan Shao in the future depends on himself.

This is a conspiracy, in exchange for merging the land of the state, in exchange for his own black mountain thieves to buy time for him to contain and resist Yuan Shao.

However, today, the Yellow Turban thieves have perished one by one, the white wave thieves have died down, the Taishan thieves have been co-opted, and only the increasingly poor Black Mountain thieves are left in the world, and the life of the thieves is becoming more and more difficult.

If you can take the merger of the state, keep the pass, resist Yuan Shao's pressure and operate hard for three or five years, with your own talent and fame, how can you let Deng Pimple be beautiful among the thieves in the world?

Zhang Yanshang was immersed in his own thoughts, and Yang Feng, the captain of Montenegro under the command of the accompanying guests, read Tian Chou's words earlier, frowned and asked: "The north of the party belongs to Zhang Feiyan, and Deng Mu'an is drawn to the party?" ”

North of Shangdang, then it does not include Shangdang. There are only five counties in the state that can be occupied, and then Deng Ji takes away one county, what else is there to chew?

Although it is not its own, Yang Feng and his ilk can't let it go.

"My lord only wants to free his hands to go west, and he has no intention of going to the party!" Tian Chou first gave a promise, and then continued: "Your and my two families were born from the same root, and they should be friendly to each other, but it has been a few years, early things are wrong, the world is endless, or there are people who are looking for trouble, and Xiao Qiang's disaster must not be prevented!" My lord's intentions, Shangdang Sizhou and Zhang Ping are not occupied, and they are entrusted with the people close to the two families, how about it? ”

Hearing Tian Chou say this, Zhang Yan had come back to his senses and asked in surprise: "Who are the two families close to?" ”

"How is the Twin Halberd General Pang Zhen?"

Zhang Yan was stunned, Pang Zhen of course he knew, the bandit name Pang Shuangji, a few years ago when he secretly planned Yecheng, this person had the merit of offering the city gate, after returning to Taihang, he promised him a party Qu Shuai, self-proclaimed as the general of the double halberd, commanding one or two thousand strong, mixed in the vicinity of Jingcheng, the black mountain is not a big thief, only begging for a life under his own command, but he doesn't want to make friends with Deng Pimple.

When Deng Ji was a thief, he was active near Shangdang, and knew that he was at the top of Taihang, a high ground surrounded by mountains, and the land was high and dangerous, and it was a place where soldiers must fight, known as "the party can hope to win the Central Plains".

In the Taihang Eight Mountains, Hanoi is in the hands of Deng Ji, the southern end of the Yiguan Taihang and Baicheng are not feasible, Yuan Shao's heavy troops are more than Tun near Yecheng, and the Jizhou soldiers want to come to the rescue and the state, and the nearest route is to take the Hukou Pass and take the party.

To guard against Yuan Shao, it is also important to guard against the party, but now the top priority is to plot Xiliang, the rear of Ansi Prefecture, Deng Ji is unable to try to manage the garrison of the party, such a strategic place, can only be used as a strategic buffer place for the two counties of Hanoi and Hedong, and does not want it to completely fall into the hands of Zhang Yan.

Pang Shuangji is friendly on both sides, if he occupies the party, it is equivalent to declaring his separation from Montenegro, but this important land, Yang Feng is going to fight for Montenegro, seeing that Zhang Yan is still thinking about it, he said: "Fukou Huguan is a place to rush, and the generals of Shuangjia are only 2,000 soldiers, and I am afraid that they will not be able to defend the party!" ”

Tian Chou responded: "Captain doesn't need to worry too much, General Pang occupies the party, Jizhou Yuan Jun comes to take it, and Sizhou has its own response!" And if the war is unfavorable, it is expected that Zhang Ping will not be able to sit idly by! ”

Tian Chou refused to back down half a step, Yang Feng could only know how to be polite: "Sizhou brave soldiers are rare, but the military elite is outnumbered, according to what he said, General Wei is about to draw troops to aid Xiliang, how can there be military horses to join the party in the future?" ”

Tian Chou smiled but did not answer.

Zhang Yan and Yang Feng didn't know that Deng Ji begged for Shangdang County for the old man Pang Shuangji to serve as a barrier between the two counties in Hedong and Hanoi, but it was the idea of the military advisor Jia Xu.

If the first battle can win the high cadre Yuan Shang, the Black Mountain thieves seized and annexed the state, Shangdang has Zhang Yan in the north, Deng Ji in the south, and the Xiongnu in the west are worry-free, and the only thing that needs to be defended is a Fukou in the east, and there are thousands of troops guarding Huguan, Yuan Shao no longer dares to commit a light offense.

Deng Ji's military system is strict, and those who are not brave are not allowed to be included in the pawns, although the princes are puzzled, but they also know that every army they have made is a tiger in the world. Sizhou is now rich, although the number of soldiers is lacking, but there is a surplus of armor and equipment, Jia Xu will steal the beam and change the pillar, so that the government hires more than 8,000 civilian men in various places, and pretends to be sergeants to the equipment and armor, through Zang Ba's command, the "Armed Guard" is first organized, and when the time comes, it will be stationed in the party, and the battle will naturally not be successful, but there is more than enough momentum for Pang Shuanghuang, how can outsiders argue between truth and falsehood?

When the time came, Yuan Shaoding did not dare to commit a light offense, so he could only send troops from the Flying Fox and Puyin Army, which were still in his own hands - these important roads were all in the north, and Zhang Yan had to deal with the fighting, so Tian Chou did not answer. (To be continued......)