At the same time that Chen Zhi achieved results, Xu Ji on the other side was also facing troubles. And the incident is still inseparable from Jizhou.

Yanzhou, Shanyang County, Jinxiang.

Liu Dai was attacked.

Since the Montenegrin army invaded Yanzhou, Liu Dai, who had been stationed in Jiyin County for more than half a month, really couldn't hold his breath, he didn't even say hello to Bao Xin and Zhang Miao, he went deep alone, and went straight to Rencheng County, only to arrive in Jinxiang and Zhang Yan's ambush army attack, as soon as he came into contact, he was caught off guard by Zhang Yan's well-trained Montenegrin army, and he had to be trapped in Jinxiang.

On the first day, Liu Dai, who was dissatisfied with the sneak attack, was impatient to go into battle after a day's rest, went out of the city in person, and asked Zhang Yan to come out to fight with him. As a result, Zhang Yan met Liu Dai's self-sufficient requirements, picked up the gun, and picked Liu Dai's helmet to the ground in just six rounds, frightened Liu Dai into the desert and fled. In this way, morale will naturally be greatly hit, and Zhang Yan will certainly not let go of this opportunity.

The next day, Zhang Yan picked up Liu Dai's helmet with a high pole, and hung a strip of cloth with "Liu Dai's head" written in bright red characters. He also ordered a few loud soldiers to shout and scold loudly outside the city, and even more unscrupulously urinated towards the city gate, doing his best to humiliate him, so angry that Liu Dai was almost about to go out of the city and fight to the death with Zhang Yan, fortunately, the most dear man named Wang Qiu under his command was killed, otherwise Liu Dai had died in Huangquan at this time, and he crossed the bridge to drink Meng Po soup and sign the book of life and death to see the prince of Yan.

In the next two days, Zhang Yan sent 30,000 people to attack the city like flowing water.

Jinxiang is a small city, the city wall is in disrepair, and because the Montenegrin army is stationed in Rencheng County. The people of Jinxiang have long fled completely, and only those old, young, sick and disabled people who are unable to leave their homeland can survive here. The county magistrate of Najin Township is dutiful. Less than two thousand soldiers are here, but even with the addition of these people. Liu Dai's soldiers in Jinxiang were only about 10,000. The food and grass in the city are even more pitiful, not enough to last for two months, and as for the equipment used to defend the city, it is in disrepair, lacking arms and legs, but the county commander with a heart has prepared a lot of rolling logs and stones in the city early, and these stupid things can be used for a while, but the situation is still worrying.

The only good thing to disappear is that although Zhang Yan's army is strong, it is not a regular army after all, and all kinds of sharp weapons used to attack the city are of course impossible. Only a group of well-rounded archers covered the charging soldiers and used barely usable ladders to climb towards the head of Jinxiang, but due to the condescending nature of Liu Dai's archers, Zhang Yan's soldiers suffered more casualties in the counter-shooting.

But although Liu Dai was defeated in the hands of Zhang Yan, it is a pity that his reckless character has not changed at all, and he personally went to the city wall to direct the battle, gritted his teeth and thundered at the Black Mountain Army outside the city, and even yelled again and again, throwing wooden stones to the city in the first place. His behavior undoubtedly greatly encouraged the desire of his soldiers to fight, and even the originally panicked Jinxiang defenders were infected by Liu Dai and desperately defended the city. For a time, the battle was very tragic. The entire sky above Jinxiang City was filled with deafening shouts from both sides, wanting to overwhelm each other in momentum.

Huge stones and rolling logs, which burned violently from being anointed with oil, were thrown from the top of the city, and countless Zhang Yan's soldiers were smashed down before they could climb halfway up the city wall.

Many of the soldiers were hit in the chest by boulders, and they were already spitting blood in mid-air. The massive stone ignored the lives of the soldiers and vanished under their cold bodies. Still pressing down on the ground, the unlucky soldiers who were looking up at the base of the city because they were about to climb the city walls were hit directly in the face by the boulders that fell from the sky with the blood of their comrades. In the crisp sound of the head, many people's faces were directly smashed into a thin layer.

The burning log ignited the tattered clothes on Zhang Yan's soldiers. The air was filled with the foul smell of burnt skin and the sound of Zhang Yan's soldiers crying wolf before they died, and there were many corpses on the ground that were completely black from the whole body and their limbs were burned out unnaturally.

It's just that Zhang Yan was embarrassed, Liu Dai was not happy, he lost nearly 3,000 people in two days of fighting, because the oil had run out, the lethality of the flames on the rolling wood was greatly weakened, as a last resort, he had to pour buckets of boiling boiling water under the city wall, and the hot Zhang Yan's soldiers were peeling their flesh one by one, and at night, Liu Dai's soldiers who stood vigil on the city wall could hear the screams and groans of the soldiers who did not dare to turn their bodies because they were burned. In this era, there are almost no battlefield medical means, and these soldiers can only resign themselves to fate after being injured, and those who are seriously injured can only die.

However, Zhang Yan obviously did not invest all his strength to fight Liu Dai, and the strength of the famous Black Mountain Army was of course far more than that, and the number of people could not be only 30,000 in front of him.

Liu Dai saw that the situation was not good and wanted to break through outside the city, but he tried hard to dissuade Wang Qiu, the reason was that the news of Liu Dai's march had reached Bao Xin and Zhang Miao at this time, as long as he held on for a few more days, the army of the two would quickly come to the rescue, not to mention that there was also an army of horses Xu Ji in the left vicinity, let alone don't worry, for the sake of Liu Dai is relationship with the royal family, presumably Xu Ji would not stand idly by, otherwise why would Xu Ji be stationed near Chenliu.

But in fact, the number of troops under Xu Ji's command is far less than Wang Qiu imagined, and there are only less than 1,000 people trapped in the camp and more than 1,000 people who stayed in Chen after Le Jin left, although these soldiers are strong in battle, they are indeed irreparable in numbers, and more importantly, Xu Ji actually has no intention of rescuing Liu Dai. Of course, Liu Dai himself actually didn't expect Xu Ji to rescue him at all, because he gave Xu Ji a lot of face when he met the alliance before.

So in the end, Liu Dai still stubbornly chose to break through, and it was a breakthrough full of anger.

But Liu Dai, who fought Zhang Yan for the second time, did not gain the upper hand because of his anger, but was pierced through his right arm by Zhang Yan's iron spear. Splashed with blood, he fled back to the city in embarrassment. The bold and careful Zhang Yan came at the end of the year, wanting to take advantage of the situation to attack the city. But Wang Qiu, who had been on guard, commanded the soldiers at the head of the city to shoot Zhang Yan back with a rain of arrows. He shot down Zhang Yan's war horse with an arrow, and the angry Zhang Yan rolled up from the ground, quickly hid behind the huge shields of the soldiers rushing behind him, and took advantage of the fire at the head of the city to shoot down Zhang Yan's triumphant Wang Qiu is arrow, which hit Wang Yan's weakness, and the painful latter fainted directly, almost falling to the head of the city, if it wasn't for the soldiers rushing to hold it, Wang Qiu would have fallen to death in a coma.

And the injuries of Liu Daihe and Wang Qiu naturally caused Liu Daijun's morale to plummet. If it weren't for the Jinxiang County Order, he would have some skills. I'm afraid that the morale of the army will be even more weakened, and it will collapse without a fight. The only thing to be thankful for was that some of Liu Dai's subordinates took advantage of the chaos to rush out of Zhang Yan's encirclement and quickly went in the direction of Jiyin County for help.

Zhang Yan, who was supposed to take advantage of the victory to attack the city, relaxed his offensive posture at this time, and just bluffed every day to send some soldiers to harass the defenders of Jinxiang, making Liu Dai and others uneasy.

Wang Qiu admonished Liu Dai, believing that he should not relax his vigilance, which was most likely Zhang Yan's strategy to paralyze his own side, after all, the other party's army was several times larger than his own. Of course, it can be divided into several groups to continuously harass Jinxiang, not to be careless, Liu Dai, who has been frightened by Zhang Yan, thought so, and ordered the defenders to fight 120,000 points of mental defense against Zhang Yan.

Liu Dai, who thought he had a plan, didn't know that he had won the plan to stabilize the army. Zhang Yan took the opportunity that Liu Dai didn't even dare to go out of the city gate, and had quietly mobilized the army to set a trap near Jinxiang, because Liu Dai's subordinates who broke through the siege were deliberately released by Zhang Yan. The purpose is to lure Bao Xin and others to take the bait, so as to realize their intention to surround the point and send reinforcements.

So far. The battle on the battlefield of Yanzhou is in full swing.

It seems that Zhang Yan has the upper hand at this time.

However, Zhang Yan didn't know what to do, and Gao Shunbu came soon. It will give him a textbook plains anti-ambush war.

Of course, when it comes to rescuing Liu Dai, Xu Ji himself has no interest, but his identity is embarrassing now, he is the ruling Jinwu, but he does not have the corresponding army, and it is inevitable that there is a risk of falling into the mouth of the tongue when he lives in Chenliu, so when Zhang Miao asked Xu Ji to send troops to rescue Liu Dai, Xu Ji was reluctant, but he still agreed. And the reason why Xu Ji agreed was also under the premise that he would win, although the Montenegrin Army was prestigious, Zhang Yan was even more famous and a figure in the battle array, but this "Feiyan" general was not taken by Xu Ji in his eyes, of course, this is not because Xu Ji is arrogant, but because Zhang Yan has lived in a fixed place for several years, and the Montenegrin Army is like water without a source, so there is no need to worry at all, so Xu Jicai does not mind.

But now that he is going to send troops, he naturally needs to be more careful, after all, the opponent is not a young man who has just entered the battlefield, Xu Ji, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, understands that once a negligence can be a complete loss, so even if he did not go to the front line in person, he still told Gao Shun to be careful.

And after Chen arrived and went to Jizhou, Xu Ji was left with only Gao Shun, a military general who could make Xu Ji not worry.

After the Battle of Jinxiang, the Central Plains shook.

Zhang Yan once again showed the world his strong combat effectiveness. However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Zhang Yan is obviously not here, and his target is still Dongjun. This is very clear to Yu Poison beside him at this moment.

At this moment, Zhang Yan and Yu Poison were hiding in a dense forest in the northwest corner of Jinxiang City, and on the opposite side was a small hill, and Zhang Yan on both sides was waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

Yu Poison, who was full of fierce faces, looked around with huge eyes like copper bells, and said with a low "hehe" smile: "Yan Shuai, according to the speed, Bao Xin and Zhang Miao will soon come to die, if Bao Xin and the others can be eliminated this time, then Yanzhou will be in our bag." Yan Shuai's trick to lure the snake out of the hole is indeed beautiful, after this battle, see how they still stop us! ”

And Zhang Yan, who was slightly thin opposite him, but his body was very streamlined and beautiful, shook his head when he heard the words: "Where is it so simple?" I'm afraid it's going to be complicated. If you only need to deal with Bao Xin and Zhang Miao, the three in the west can echo from end to end and transform into a whole chain of ambushes at will. This gift is specially prepared for the variable I am worried about. ”

Yu Poison is obviously brave and ruthless, but his brain is not very good, and when he heard this, he snorted coldly: "Yan Shuai is too careful, who else in Yanzhou besides Zhang Miao and Bao Xin can threaten us?" What exactly is Yan Shuai's variables? ”

Zhang Yan glanced at him and said, "No matter who comes, it's fine." The future and destiny of my Montenegrin army is the most important thing, since my father-in-law raised the army. Our Montenegrin army has fought more than 100 battles, conquering all of them, and winning invincible battles. The counties of the Central Plains were terrified, but they could not achieve their big things, to put it bluntly, every place that can stand, the reason why I want to attack the East County is for the sake of my brother's future future. If it was before, I would have chosen to gather in the mountains and forests for the rest of my life, but now the world is in chaos, if we don't take the opportunity to become a big thing, then we will be swallowed by others sooner or later. ”

Yu Poison couldn't understand it anymore. Turning his head and looking at Zhang Yan in confusion, he obviously didn't understand why the always deep and unfathomable handsome man in front of him would say so many things to him today.

Zhang Yan said thoughtfully: "Do you know the way? If I want to stand on my feet, I must have a legal status, that is to say, I must have an order from the imperial court, if I go to Dongjun, the first thing I will do is to send someone to Chang'an to get the post of Dongjun Taishou for myself, and at that time, we will no longer be bandits in name. Then I went to get close to the powerful princes around me, and with the orders of the imperial court and the support of the princes, we will definitely dominate one side after a period of recuperation. Even if it is to conquer the world, it is unknown! ”

Yu Poison asked puzzledly: "I understand the order of the imperial court, but why do I want to please the princes?" And isn't Yan Shuai about to ambush Zhang Miao and Bao Xin now? Where does this start to please them? ”

Zhang Yan sneered: "Yu Poison, you still don't understand what I mean. The princes I am talking about are neither Zhang Miao nor Bao Xin, but today's concubine Xu Ji! And you really don't know Xu Ji's personality. This man is extremely ambitious, among the current princes. Although his strength seems to be weak, he participates in everything, and this person is the one I can't see through the most, and this person is the one I am most afraid of! You see, the princes of the world don't need the support of the family to become a big thing, but this Xu Ji is self-made, from now he has an ambiguous attitude in Chenliu, I know that the reason why Xu Ji stayed in Chenliu and did not go to Chang'an is not so simple as trying to stay in Chen, in my opinion, Xu Ji may have the idea of being in charge of one side, but he does not rely on the family to start very slowly, and before the battle in Wancheng, the world knows that there is Xu Ji, When he crusaded against Dong Zhuo, he earned a lot of fame and popularity at a very small price, and now Zhang Miao has to be a guest. Now that he is not leaving Yanzhou, I am worried that this person has already aimed at the boundary of Yanzhou! ”

Yu Poison suddenly realized: "It turns out that Yan Shuai has been standing still in Rencheng County for the past half a month, not as simple as the army resting, or do you want to see this Xu Ji's reaction?" ”

Zhang Yan nodded and said, "This time, you used your brains." He smiled and looked at Yu Poison, who was embarrassed by his praise: "So in my opinion, the relationship between Xu Ji and Zhang Miao is not very close, Xu Ji's real idea is probably to control Yanzhou in his own hands, if he can borrow our hand to get rid of Liu Dai, it can be regarded as a piece of his heart." ”

Yu Poison was stunned and said, "Does Yan Shuai really want to show favor to Xu Ji?" ”

Zhang Yan responded casually and said: "Don't be unconvinced, to be honest, although Xu Ji's strength seems weak, it is definitely not something we can deal with, and a general like Xu Rong will not dare and cannot win, let alone you and me?" Even if Xu Ji was lucky at that time, it is difficult to say that this person did not recruit troops in Chenliu, I really don't want to clash with this horse head-on, do you know why I chose to observe Xu Ji in Rencheng County? It was because he was worried that if the cavalry under Xu Ji's command fought against him on the plain, even if the number of our army was ten times higher than his, he was afraid that there would be a situation of defeat and invincibility, and the terrain of Rencheng County was complicated, and the cavalry army under Xu Ji probably did not dare to attack lightly. But we can't stay in Rencheng County forever, Dongjun is the ideal place, we must cooperate with Xu Ji if we want to gain a foothold in Dongjun, but I won't kill Liu Dai, because this is equivalent to us becoming Xu Ji's scapegoat, once Liu Dai dies in our hands, I'm afraid that Xu Ji will immediately deal with us in the name of avenging Liu Dai, Liu Dai is the emperor and he is a national relative, in this case, we are afraid that even Dongjun will not be able to gain a foothold, and we will always be remembered by Xu Ji for fear that we will continue to go into exile, Therefore, the purpose of this battle is to make Liu Dai and the others frightened, and they are powerless to prevent us from advancing westward, as for the army that Xu Ji may come, I never thought of annihilating it, it will be an impossible task, I just want to make him suffer a big loss in Jinxiang, and I want him to understand that I, Zhang Yan, are not easy to match, and I will not get an inch when I cooperate with us in the future. If you want to kill Liu Dai, let Xu Ji find a way to go by himself. ”

After saying this, Zhang Yan paused and said: "From the intelligence point of view, Xu Ji's main enemy now is Yuan Shao's father and son, Yuan Shao is obviously trying to seize Jizhou now, once Yuan Shao succeeds Xu Ji's position will immediately become embarrassing, presumably Xu Ji is also extremely anxious, and we are also anxious to go to Dongjun, as the so-called he is anxious and I am anxious, now I am setting up an ambush here to weaken Liu Dai, Bao Xin and Zhang Miao, it is considered a favor of Xu Ji, it is not too troublesome for him to deal with Liu Dai in the future, and of course Xu Ji must retreat Just go back all the way to deal with Yuan Shao. Hmph, then again, do you think I want to work with Xu Ji? If it weren't for Liu Dai, who didn't know what medicine Lu Dao had taken wrong, or if he was my enemy in my previous life, it would be impossible to cooperate with him, otherwise I would have gone straight to Liu Dai, why bother so much to please Tai Shici now? ”

Yu Poison let out a sigh of relief, and only then did he understand the overall plan in Zhang Yan's heart.

At this moment, one of his subordinates reported that Bao Xin and Zhang Miao had crashed headlong into the ambush set up by Zhang Yan in the west.

To the west of Jinxiang, a bloody battle began. (To be continued......)