Chapter 409: Black Mountain Zhang Yan
Liu Bi's death is actually not wronged, whether it is Gong Du, He Yi or Huang Shao who come to Shangmi, they either don't come out, and once they come out, they will also die. Because Zhu Biao is not a bandit leader in the general sense, and the five hundred longbowmen brought by Zhu Biao are not ordinary hunters who can shoot arrows.
Although the second leader is still called the second leader by his brothers, he also has another identity - the commander of the bow and crossbow battalion of the Shenxi Army, so Zhu Biao is not a bandit leader in the general sense, but a regular army leader who has received systematic training and has served in the Shenxi Army, but he does not wear standard general clothing.
The 500 longbowmen were carefully selected by Zhu Biao from among the nearly 10,000 young men in Danshui, Nanxiang, Xixian and Shunyang counties, and they had already received a whole year of training in the mountains and forests of Fengxiang City, but this level was still not enough to enter the regular Shenxi army, so they had to train for at least half a year.
Longbowmen are the sharpest in the army, both offensive and defensive, but they are also the class with the longest training cycle. Ordinary swordsmen can go into battle with weapons in their hands for as little as three months or as long as half a year, but longbowmen cannot meet the standards for participating in the war without more than a year of hard training, and going to the battlefield is just a waste of arrows.
Zhu Biao and Qu Gang teamed up to easily solve the dizzy Yellow Turban Rogue who broke into the business secret. As soon as Liu Pi died, the remaining Yellow Turban Army could not escape, so they could only surrender and survive, so Zhu Biao and Qu Gang were divided among the remaining 3,000 prisoners.
These two people thought that the Yellow Turban Liukou who dared to come to Danshui was not long-sighted by Liu Pi and his gang, but in the next period of time, they actually received alarms from time to time, and they simply took the capture of Yellow Turban prisoners as a business, and in more than a month, they actually arrested more than 7,000 people one after another, and even arrested He Yi, the head of the Yellow Turban in Runan.
So far, the "five leaders" of the Yellow Turban who have been in Runan for many years are He Yi, Huang Shao, Liu Pi, He Man and Gong Du. Three of them were killed, only He Yi was captured, and Gong followed Liu Bei.
Liu Biao originally wanted to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and let the notorious Yellow Turban thieves come to attack the local "sect thieves" in Danshui, but he didn't expect that the tigers he let in were too weak, and the wolves in Danshui were too ferocious.
However, Liu Biao has no loss, and the favor that should be sold to Liu Bei has been sold in place. There is no need to directly collide with Cao Cao, but Cao Cao is now arguing with Yuan Shu, and the two sides are fighting back and forth, but they don't do it directly.
The battle for Runan has come to an end for the time being, and Cao Cao's gain this time is undoubtedly the greatest. Liu Bei lost peace but gained Luyang, and he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse. Liu Xian was focusing on Chang'an, and he didn't want to provoke Cao Cao for a while. Although Lu Mian, Yuan Shu's subordinate, was taught a lesson by Cao Cao, the loss was not big, and after he quarreled. can only pinch his nose and admit Cao Cao's actual occupation of Runan.
During this period, Qu Yong received news from Qu Dazhuang and couldn't help but be overjoyed when he learned that the person Liu He was looking for was outside Pingchun City. He asked people to prepare a hundred taels of gold and a high-grade war horse, and rushed to Pingchun in person.
At this time, Wei Yan's mother's condition has improved, but she still has to spend money to continue to take medicine. But the fifteen yuan that Qu Dazhuang paid Wei Yan first had been used up. Wei Yan was embarrassed to urge Qu Dazhuang to hurry up and repay the money, after all, it was really rare to find such a sincere buyer as Qu Dazhuang, and Qu Dazhuang was also waiting very anxiously.
Moment of truth. Qu Yong was escorted to Pingchun by a hundred good men in Qujiabao.
When Qu Yong asked people to carry a hundred taels of gold and brought a war horse with a black body, the young Wei Yan finally understood the reason why Qu Dazhuang was "dependent" in his own family. With Qu Jiabao's heavy sincerity, what else could Wei Yan say?
In order to allow Wei Yan to work for the eldest prince in the future, Qu Yong directly took the Wei family to the Sanhu Pavilion, and the young Wei Yan was sent to Fengxiang City and began to receive various training.
Famous generals are not born, in this time and space, Wei Yan returned to Liu He, then his fate was destined to be no longer the same from the beginning, and his original tragic life ending will be completely rewritten from now on.
Jingzhou has temporarily returned to calm, but Tai Shici, who guards Jizhou, has to face a new challenge.
After Tai Shici returned to Gauntao from Xuzhou last year, his prestige increased again, and the 20,000 soldiers of the Zhenwei battalion regarded him as an undefeated military god, and their worship of him was so hot that it could not be greater. Just like the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Guard worship Zhao Yun, the soldiers of the Youyan Army worship Zhang He, and now Tai Shici has also become the military soul of the Zhenwei Battalion, as long as his halberd points forward, there are tens of millions of blood-boiling soldiers rushing up without hesitation.
Soldiers are the courage of generals and the soul of soldiers. The troops, which have always had a soul, are undoubtedly terrible and respectable.
Liu He asked Tai Shici to get in touch with Zhang Yan, the leader of the Montenegrin army, as soon as possible, and persuaded Zhang Yan to send troops from Taihang Mountain to attack Jinyang, forcing Yuan Shao to send a part of his troops back to Jinyang, which was empty. Liu He also revealed to Tai Shici in the letter that he was contacting Ma Teng and Han Sui in Xiliang, asking Ma Teng to send troops to harass Yuan Shao's flank and contain more of Yuan Shao's troops, so as to reduce the pressure on Zhang Yang in Hedong and Hanoi.
Tai Shici fully understands Liu He's painstaking arrangement, if Liu He is the kind of person who is eager for quick success and quick profit, regardless of the life and death of the officers and soldiers of each army, he can directly give Zhang He an order, so that the newly replenished Youyan army will approach Jinyang, so the pressure on Yuan Shao is far more obvious than the two forces of Zhang Yan and Ma Teng. But obviously Liu He is not such a person, he values the lives of the soldiers under his command more than anything else, like a miserly miser, every time he has to calculate carefully, try to reduce the casualty rate of the troops, and preserve the veterans with rich combat experience as much as possible.
For such a lord, Tai Shi Ci respects him from the bottom of his heart, so even if Liu He gave him a dangerous task this time, Tai Shi Ci did not hesitate to implement it.
The Montenegrin Army often haunts the valleys of the Taihang Mountains in Zhongshan County, Changshan County, Zhao County, Shangdang, Hanoi and other places, and Montenegro is located at the southern end of the Taihang Mountains, so it is called the Montenegrin Army.
The predecessor of the Montenegrin Army, in fact, the Yellow Turban troops of the Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Bingzhou uprisings fled into the deep Taihang Mountains when they were killed by officers and soldiers and had no way out, and then gradually converged. Thousands of miles of Taihang, the peaks are repeated, and the southeast of the mountain range is the Jizhong Plain. The northwest is the Jinzhong Plateau, and the Jizhong Plain leads to the Jinzhong Plateau, and the Shanxi Road leading to the Jinzhong Plateau is mostly distributed between the Taihang Mountains. The topography of the Taihang Mountains has provided favorable conditions for the various units of the Montenegrin Army distributed in the valleys of the Taihang Mountains to communicate and cooperate with each other.
General Tai Shi Ci settled down in affairs, only brought a small number of guards from Gaunt Tao to Fangxian County, and then sent a bold and careful subordinate to Zanhuang Mountain to find traces of the Black Mountain Army. This subordinate is named Sun Li, who was originally the part of the trial, and when the trial went to Luoyang, he entrusted him to Tai Shi Ci, and now he has achieved the position of military Sima under Tai Shi Ci.
Feng Li entered the mountains and searched everywhere. Suddenly surrounded by a group of scouts of the Montenegrin army, Feng Li hurriedly shouted that there was an important matter to discuss with Sun Qing or Wang Dang, the little marshal of the Montenegrin army, there were many scouts, and he was not worried about Sun Li's deception, so he temporarily detained him and took out a token from his arms, which was given to each other by Sun Qing and Tai Shici when they met on the shore of Jishui.
These scouts did not dare to make their own decisions, so they hurriedly sent a person to go deep into the mountains and forests, and met Sun Qing two days later. Present the token. When Sun Qing saw it, he immediately changed color, and hurriedly asked this subordinate to bring him to see Feng Li.
"Where did this token come from?" After Sun Qing saw Feng Li, his first sentence was to ask.
Feng Li replied: "I am Sima Feng Li of the Youyan Army." Taishi Ziyi, the general of my family, is now in the county, and this time he has something important to talk about with you, and he also asked Sun Tou to take a trip out of the mountain. ”
Sun Qing has a very good impression of Tai Shi Ci, and has always felt that Tai Shi Ci is not only brave and strategic. And he is very faithful, he believes that what Feng Li said should be true. Sun lightly let Feng Li return to the house county and asked Feng Li to bring a message to Tai Shici. Let's just say I'll see you in the old place. Although Feng Li didn't know what the "old place" was, the task given to him by Tai Shici had been completed, so he left Zanhuang Mountain without stopping.
Three days later, Tai Shici appeared on the shore of Jishui alone.
After a while, Sun Qing walked out of the dense forest on the shore and smiled at Tai Shici on the horse.
"Sun Qing, a man of the mountains and wilderness, has seen General Taishi!"
"Brother Sun is polite, your men are no less than mine!"
"Haha......"
A canonized general of the imperial court, a rebel leader, laughed loudly on the shore of Jishui.
"Today's appointment to meet Brother Sun is a major matter related to the future fate of the Montenegrin Army, and you need to tell Zhang Dashuai immediately." Tai Shici's face was solemn, not like a joke.
"Please also make the general clear."
"Gongzi wants to give hundreds of thousands of people in the Black Mountain Army a bright future, and Zhang Dashuai has to nod his head in this matter. Just bring the word, and I'll be waiting for him in this house." Time is pressing, no matter whether Zhang Dashuai comes to see me or not, I will come here in ten days to wait for your reply! ”
There is no need for Tai Shi Ci to explain, Sun Qing also knows who the son he mentioned is, looking at the whole world, he can name the person who can give Black Mountain Junshan a future, and it is Liu He of Youzhou.
Because the matter was too important, after Sun Qing said goodbye to Tai Shici, he rushed all the way into Fengshan, and spread the news to the headquarters of the Montenegrin army as quickly as possible.
After Zhang Yan received the urgent report from Sun Qing, she suddenly fell into deep thought.
Zhang Yan's original name was Chu Feiyan, a native of Changshan Zhending, and Zhao Yun was a fellow villager. He was originally a general of Zhang Niujiao, the leader of the Montenegrin rebel army, and after Zhang Niujiao's death, he was elected as the leader of the Montenegrin army. Zhang Yan's skills are agile and fierce, so he has the nickname "Feiyan".
Today, the total number of Montenegrin troops begging for a living in the Taihang Mountains has exceeded 500,000, of which there are more than 300,000 old and weak women and children who can fight. As the leader of so many people, Zhang Yan was already worried just to solve their food problems, and sometimes in order to solve the urgent need, he had to condone his subordinates to go out of the mountains to loot, and did a lot of shady things.
Now Tai Shi Ci has sent a message for Liu He, saying that Liu He wants to give the entire Black Mountain Army a bright future, such a temptation is too great, Zhang Yan has to think carefully about whether this matter is true or false. (To be continued......)