The mountains ahead are majestic, and the road is tortuous. The majestic Taihang Mountain in the west is already faintly visible.

After the army advanced for more than 20 miles, there was a sound of people shouting horses neighing in front of him, Yuan Mai was taken aback, and without waiting for the spies sent by Liyi to come back to report, he sent the elite soldiers around him to act as scouts and quickly inquire about the news.

Half an hour later, the spy Pegasus reported: "General Qiqi Yuan, twenty miles ahead, Captain Hao's vanguard has been raided, and now it is in a fierce battle, please make a decision!" ”

"Where did the centaurs come from? How dare you attack our army? Yuan Mai couldn't help but be furious, and wanted to take Daijun, before he left Jizhou, he was ambushed, is this still the territory of the Yuan family? Who is so bold?

"The enemy is under the banner of Montenegro, and it is estimated that he is a Montenegrin thief!"

"Montenegro Zhang Yan?" Yuan Mai gasped, but he didn't expect Chu Feiyan, who had been dormant for a long time, to actually take the knife himself.

Before the crossing, Yuan Mai didn't know much about Zhang Yan, only that he was the best among the Yellow Turban generals, and all the data were very good. After the death of the "great sage and good teacher" Zhang Jiao brothers, the black mountain thieves gathered by Zhang Yanxiao became the second only force in the Yellow Turban Party in Qingzhou. Yuan Shao recruited several times, but was rejected by Zhang Yan, and later Cao Cao pacified Jizhou, Zhang Yan led his troops to surrender, and was named a liehou.

A few days before the expedition, Yuan Maicai consulted some information and had a certain understanding of Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Thieves.

Zhang Yan was originally ordered by Chu Yan, and after the death of Zhang Jiao's brothers, he led part of the Yellow Turban Army into Taihang Mountain to fight guerrillas. Another big leader who gathered Taihang at the same time as him was called Zhang Niujiao. The two gathered tens of thousands of Yellow Turban remnants to make a rebellion at the junction of Hebei and the two states, known as the "Black Mountain Army", and the imperial court encircled and suppressed it several times, making it difficult to perform.

Later, Zhang Niujiao mistakenly killed Liu Liuya, and before he died, he summoned his subordinates and ordered them to worship Chu Yan as the main general, obey the order, and revive the Yellow Turban. Holding the power alone, Chu Feiyan became the undisputed leader of the Montenegrin Army and changed his name to Zhang Yan. Because Zhang Yan has excellent riding skills, he can immediately shoot left and right, and he is fierce, so he got the nickname of "Feiyan".

At that time, the Yellow Turban was weak, and the princes from all walks of life had crusaded against the Yellow Turban Liukou in the territory, and Sun Qing, Wang Dang, Zhenggu, Du Chang and others in the Taihang area led their troops to Taihang Mountain to join Zhang Yan and joined the camp of "Black Mountain Thieves". Zhang Yan's power was prosperous, and the number of strong soldiers reached 70,000 or 80,000, plus the old, weak, women and children, and the number of Black Mountain thieves was 200,000.

Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was unable to levy it, so he listened to the advice of Yang Biao, the chief lieutenant, and canonized Zhang Yan as a "general in peace and difficulty", and wanted to recruit him. Who knew that after Zhang Yan was sealed, he still went his own way, looting places from time to time, and everywhere he went, the prefectures and counties were miserable.

Zhang Yan's fame is flourishing, and the Yellow Turban remnants from all over the world have come to vote, and from time to time, there are dozens of small units such as Zuoxiao, Niujiao, Wulu, Zhenggen, Kushi, Liu Shipinghan, Dahong, Sili, Yuancheng, Luoshi, Lei Gong, Yu Poison, etc., to join in Taihang, with Zhang Yan as the leader, with the title of the Black Mountain Army, entrenched in the various valleys of Taihang Mountain.

As a result, the power of the Montenegrin Army was unprecedentedly high, and the number of elite soldiers that Zhang Yan could dispatch reached more than 100,000, plus the old, weak, women and children, known as millions. The princes of the world were all shocked, and regarded Zhang Yan as the number one "big thief" in the world after Zhang Jiao.

The stormy Eastern Han Dynasty was unable to conquer at all, so it had to let the Montenegrin army cause trouble to the north. Emperor Ling died, and Dong Zhuo was in chaos. The princes of the world formed an alliance to defeat Dong and thieves, and no one took care of Zhang Yan in the Taihang Mountains, so that the Montenegrin army continued to entrench itself at the junction of Hebei and the two states. When it came to the name of Zhang Yan, the big thief in Montenegro, all the states and counties trembled.

Later, Han Fu was named the assassin of Jizhou, and the troops he could control were only tens of thousands, and in the face of the "Black Mountain Army" of more than 100,000 people, he did not dare to go to war.

In the third year of the first peace, Lu Bu and Situ Wang Yun conspired to kill the traitor Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo's rebellion ended. Later, Dong Zhuo's remnants Li Dao and Guo Yan led troops to invade Chang'an, Lu Bu was defeated and fled, and Situ Wang Yun was martyred. The Eastern Han Dynasty regime fell into the hands of Li Dao, Guo Yan and others in the Western Liang Remnants, and the princes from all walks of life held heavy troops, secretly accumulating power, waiting for the opportunity.

In the fourth year of the first peace, the warlord predator Yuan Shao in the north extended his tentacles into Jizhou, using both soft and hard, forcing Han Fu to death, forcibly occupying Jizhou, annexing Han Fu's troops, and asking the court to be named Jizhou Mu, Li Dao and Guo Yan were afraid of Yuan Shao's power and forced the emperor to obey him, Yuan Shao's limelight was unmatched for a while, and he became one of the few warlords in the world.

Can you allow others to snore on the side of the couch? Yuan Shao, who had a strong army, changed his predecessor Han Fu's soft policy towards the "Montenegrin Army" and was determined to sweep away the Montenegrin Army by iron-blooded means. So he gathered an army of 70,000 and swept away all the big and small black mountain thieves.

Yuan Shao successively broke more than ten large and small Yellow Turban tribes attached to Zhang Yan, and killed many Qu Shuai such as Yu Poison, Zuo Zhangba, Li Damu, and Yu Yigen, and beheaded more than 30,000 Yellow Turban thieves. More than 100,000 women, children and old people were captured on the mountain.

Yuan Shao's toughness made Zhang Yan feel annoyed and shocked, so he gathered 100,000 elites to fight a decisive battle with Yuan Shao in Changshan Kingdom, and sent people to contact Gongsun Zhan, who was at odds with Yuan Shao, to jointly flank Yuan Shao. Gongsun Zhan then dispatched the elite Kouluo Bohai and other counties.

In the first battle of Changshan, Yuan Shaojun killed 20,000 Montenegrin troops, and he also paid the price of more than 10,000 deaths. Gongsun Zhan invaded in the north of Qingzhou and Jizhou, and Yuan Shao had no choice but to call off his troops. At this moment, Yuan Shao understood that the power of the Black Mountain thieves must not be underestimated.

Seeing Yuan Shao's toughness, Zhang Yan didn't dare to be too presumptuous, lest Yuan Shao make a comeback, and both sides would have no good fruit to eat. So he ordered his subordinates to invade Jizhou as little as possible, and plundered more in Jizhou, and sometimes even entered Sili to look for prey. Therefore, in recent years, there has been no large-scale conflict between the Montenegrin army and the Yuan army.

Unexpectedly, this time, the 10,000-strong troops had just left Yecheng 200 miles away, and before they had entered Bingzhou, they were ambushed. This couldn't help but surprise Yuan Mai, and even Koji Yi and Tian Feng were also surprised. For a while, I couldn't figure out the intentions of the Black Mountain thief.

"How many Black Mountain thieves are there? How's the battle going? Yuan Mai was anxious, and asked Le Ma.

Damn, I finally mastered a little bit of the army, and I originally wanted to use it as the capital to dominate the world, but Zhang Yan of this dog day actually took the knife by himself? Isn't it bullying? Why don't you go and fight high? Why don't you fight Yuan Xi, don't beat Yuan Shang, why are you here to bully Lao Tzu? If you are in front of me, Lao Tzu will shoot you to death with an arrow! Yuan Maiqi had a feeling of wanting to go crazy.

"There are about 10,000 Black Mountain thieves, and they are currently preparing to surround Captain Hao's subordinates. Captain Hao is commanding the troops to counterattack, and the current battlefield situation is stalemate, and it is difficult to see who has the advantage! Tanma reported in a hurry.

"Probe!" Yuan Mai waved his hand and ordered, and Le Ma went to the back to look for Ko Yi.

"No!" The probe horse agreed, whipped his horse, rolled up a puff of smoke, and went straight to the battlefield.

"General Koji, Hao Bodao's troops have been ambushed, the enemy is five times our army, I am afraid that the war will be unfavorable, please send reinforcements to support the vanguard troops as soon as possible. Otherwise, the consequences are unimaginable! ”

Yuan Mai found the handsome tent that Lu Yi had just set up, and as soon as he entered the door, he shouted anxiously, Hao Zhao's army belonged to him, of course his own children hurt themselves, and Yuan Mai felt uncomfortable when he died a soldier.