Cui Yan explained his identity to Sun Qing, Sun Qing did not dare to slack off, and on the one hand, he ordered someone to report to Zhang Yan quickly, and on the other hand, he sent someone to send Cui Yan to Changshan to see Zhang Yan.

Cui Yan followed the Montenegrin soldiers in the mountains for more than ten days, all the way only to see the valley in the strange traffic, densely populated, the people of Montenegro made the sunrise, sunset and rest, a good paradise scene.

In addition, on the periphery of each valley, there are soldiers and horses stationed, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the number of people is less than hundreds, more than thousands, think that these valleys are not less than more than 100 in the continuous Taihang Mountains.

Cui Yan secretly admired in his heart, this Zhang Yan has been entrenched in Taihang Mountain for several years, and the government is powerless to expropriate and suppress it, and Zhang Yan of Montenegro is really famous.

On this day, Cui Yan came to a huge valley with a circle of nearly ten miles, compared with other valleys before, it not only occupies a huge area here, and the soldiers and horses gather, the mouth of the valley is built with a huge wood to build a door wall, the watchtower, the arrow tower should be ready, inside and outside the door wall, hundreds of heavily armed Montenegrin soldiers patrol back and forth, the guard is tight, it is completely a military fortress.

It can be said that Zhang Yan's Montenegrin army completely broke away from the bandits of the nature of wandering and plundering like Yu Poison and Bai Huan, and gradually transformed into a separatist force that mainly cultivates and plunders as the main and plunders as the supplement, has a strong cohesive army, and dominates the side.

Cui Yan entered the valley, only to hear the rumbling of horses' hooves in the distance, thousands of cavalry shouted back and forth, exercising riding skills, and in the near distance, nearly 10,000 foot soldiers were lined up in a neat phalanx, holding spears, practicing assassination skills.

"Don't you want to give someone a dismount?" Cui Yan's heart moved, he already knew it in his heart, his face was calm, and he followed the leader straight into Zhang Yan's army.

Outside the tent of the Chinese army, I saw a hundred sword and axe hands standing outside the tent, these knife and axe hands stood on both sides, one by one, the body was strong, facing fiercely, everyone had a big axe in their hands, the axe blade was sharp, and there was a chill in the winter sun.

When these knife and axe men saw Cui Yan approaching, they didn't know who shouted the order, and with a brush, the big axes intersected, and from Cui Yan's location to the big tent of the Chinese army, a passage composed of big axes was suddenly formed!

And under the big curtain, a thirty-year-old middle-aged man with a short beard twisted in his hands and a slean atmosphere exuding a lean atmosphere was looking at him with a sneer.

Cui Yan was indifferent, smiled slightly, and raised his voice: "Is this your General Zhang's hospitality?" "After that, he didn't bow his head, as if he regarded these axes as nothing, and straightened his waist and walked forward!

The height of the big axes is very low, and Cui Yan is eight feet tall, so straight forward, he will inevitably touch the axe body in front of him, if he doesn't pay attention, it is easy to be cut by the sharp axe blade, but Cui Yan didn't realize it, and walked forward with a smile!

The two sword and axe men standing in the front row suddenly panicked, and the marshal asked them to put down the axe in front of the Chinese military tent, of course, they wanted to give the giant deer messenger a dismount, but they did not order to kill the comer, the two sword and axe men were afraid that the marshal would blame, so they quickly exchanged glances, and the axe in their hands involuntarily raised and continued!

Someone took the lead, and the people behind naturally rushed to follow suit, Cui Yan strode forward, and the axe on his head avoided one after another, and after walking more than twenty steps in a row, the middle-aged short-bearded general under the curtain walked out of the tent with an unkind face, and snorted coldly: "Wait for you to retreat and lead each of you to lead twenty military sticks, hum!" A bunch of useless things! ”

More than 100 strong people retreated, Cui Yan only felt cheerful in front of him, and looked carefully, the person standing under the tent was seven feet tall, short and strong, and had a fierce face.

Cui Yan straightened his appearance, stepped forward and bowed: "Julu is too guarded by Cui Yan under Zhang Liao's tent, and I have seen General Zhang." ”

A smile flashed at the corner of the sturdy middle-aged man's mouth, and he bowed back and said: "The handsome man is in the tent, and a certain is the pawn Wang Dang under the handsome tent, Mr. Cui, please follow me in." ”

This person is coarse on the outside and fine on the inside, and he actually deceives himself! Cui Yan didn't have a seizure, his face was as usual and he entered with Wang Dang, Wang Dang peeked in, and saw Cui Yan's posture and appearance, with a righteous face, and he couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

Cui Yan couldn't see his appearance clearly, but the whole person was eight feet tall, slender, bee-waisted ape-backed, looking up with his hands, faintly exuding a majesty.

What made Cui Yan even more sideways was that what this person was looking at was a topographic map of the mountains and rivers of Hebei and the two states.

There is no doubt that this person must be Zhang Yan, Cui Yan cleaned up his clothes, bowed and said: "Julu is too guarding Cui Yan under Zhang Liao's tent, and I have seen General Zhang." ”

The man had already heard the footsteps, and only then did he turn around slowly, only to see that his face looked extremely ordinary, but his eyes were as bright as cold stars, as if he had infinite energy, and his body always maintained a straight posture, like a vigorous pine and cypress, every move, majestic and self-generated.

He looked at Cui Yan fixedly, and he was also surprised (no way, Cui Yan is the standard image of a beautiful man in the Han Dynasty, and Cao Cao asked him to pretend to be himself to receive the envoys of Fanbang) and said lightly: "What did your general ask you to do?" ”

Cui Yan was neither humble nor arrogant, and sat down at a table beside him, and said calmly:

"Yan was ordered by the lord this time to send the general a fortune."

Zhang Yan saw that Cui Yan was uninvited, and he didn't care, so he sat down and said indifferently: "Oh, sir, come and listen?" ”

Cui Yan also said calmly: "My lord has long heard that General Zhang is eloquent, with 100,000 armor and 1,000 good generals, and he admires it in his heart but can't see it, so he ordered a certain person to come to the meeting, and when they meet for the first time, they must be polite and not respectful." With that, he took out a piece of silk wrapped in a square from his bosom.

In this era, how could an official not see this, Zhang Yan could see at a glance that it was a sealed letter, and pretended to be confused: "Oh? Could it be that your lord wants to give me Julu County as a meeting gift? ”

Cui Yan's face remained unchanged, his eyes looked directly at Zhang Yan, and he smiled faintly: "General Zhang's words are also wrong, General Zhang has 100,000 armor, if he only values a county of giant deer, is there only such ambition?" In this way, my father-in-law is afraid that his words are exaggerated. ”

"Bold! Dare to be disrespectful to the handsome! The little handsome king let out a loud shout, and his hand grasped the saber at his waist.

A hint of fierceness flashed in Zhang Yan's eyes, but it disappeared in an instant, and he said with interest: "Oh? What does your father-in-law say about so-and-so? ”

Cui Yan said: "The lord of my family has a saying, General Zhang is brave and brave, and his courage is extraordinary. ”

Zhang Yan laughed loudly: "Hahaha! Zhang Wenyuan is a young hero, how can Yan be worthy of his such false praise! Mr. Cui, tell me what kind of gift your father-in-law has sent! ”

Cui Yan smiled faintly and said: "Without him, only the ears of the eight counties of the state!" As he spoke, he presented the seal ribbon to Zhang Yan.

"Merge states?" Zhang Yan opened the baggage, and sure enough, there was a gold seal inside, about four inches wide, which was the official seal of the Bingzhou Assassin that Yuan Shao privately asked Xin Ping to give to Wen Yuan.