Zhang Yan had already received Yang Qi's order to delay the march of the official army, and he gladly accepted this arduous task.

Zhang Yan has the experience and professional ability to intercept the road, so Yang Qicai entrusted him with this difficult task.

After all, talents must be placed in the right position in order to play a greater role, otherwise it will be a pearl in the dust.

In a secluded col in the mountains on the border of Yunxi County, a bonfire is burning in the thunderbolt bar, and the smell of barbecued wild boars is sizzling.

Zhang Yan and his brothers sat around the bonfire in groups, cutting pieces of meat with sharp knives and chewing on them, their mouths full of oil.

Zhang Yan was born as a horse bandit, and now although he has joined Yang Qi and become a member of the rebel army, it is still difficult to get rid of the banditry all over his body, and there is a rebellious and unruly in his bones.

The horse bandits under Zhang Yan's command were also strong and performed well in several battles.

This time, Yang Qi asked him to cut off the food route of the imperial army, and he had promised him in advance, and after completing the task, he would be promoted to a battalion general of 1,000 households.

Yang Qi not only did not despise Zhang Yan and these people who were born as horse bandits, but took them very seriously, which made Zhang Yan and the others also moved, and swore allegiance to the death.

Now Zhang Yan and the others have attacked the two imperial army's grain convoys, and all the grain has been burned to ashes.

When they attacked the grain convoy of the Dynasty Army, they deliberately left some traces of mountain bandits and horse bandits to mislead the Imperial Army patrols.

The grain transport team was attacked, and the grain and grass could not reach the front line, which greatly affected the battle plan of the empire's elite.

The two guards also attached great importance to it, and sent a cavalry battalion general to lead a cavalry unit to encircle and suppress the people who attacked the grain team, so as to clear the safety of the grain road.

When Zhang Yan and the others rested in this hidden mountain col, the various bandits and horse bandits in the surrounding mountains were already jumping chickens and dogs.

Because Zhang Yan and the others deliberately framed them, the feather cavalry light cavalry thought that the culprits were the surrounding mountain bandits and horse bandits.

In order to ensure the safety of the grain road and complete the tasks assigned by the two generals, the feather cavalry launched a fierce attack on various bandits and horse bandits.

Although these bandits and horse bandits were bold and reckless, they did not dare to attack the grain convoy of the Imperial Army.

In the face of the encirclement and suppression of the Imperial Lianzhou Feather Cavalry, they also had bitter words, but the Feather Cavalry didn't listen to their explanations at all.

Seeing that the hard-working cottage was burned to ruins under the attack of the Feather Cavalry, and his subordinates were also killed and wounded, the bandits and horse bandits of these cottages were also full of anger but helpless.

But in the face of the brave and warlike feather cavalry, these bandits and horse bandits are just a rabble, and they have no strength to resist at all, so they can only flee.

The light cavalry of the feather cavalry attacked in all directions, and the bandits and horse bandits within a radius of 100 miles of the official road, the gangsters who gathered were all suffered, and they were defeated and defeated, and they suffered heavy casualties.

Nowadays, the corruption of imperial officials is rampant, and the heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes have caused most of them to gather together as displaced people who cannot survive, and this is why they have become bandits and horse bandits.

Although they have become bandits and horse bandits in the Wuthering Mountains, they are still honest farmers in their bones, and they generally rob the rich and help the poor, and rob their homes and houses, and they don't want to fight against the regular army of the empire at all.

But even so, the feather cavalry still did not let them go, burned their stockade, and chased them to the sky and the earth.

Now they are being chased by the feather cavalry army with many dead and wounded, and the corpses are all over the field, and they can't beat them, so they can only flee all over the mountains, and they are quite aggrieved in their hearts.

As the culprit of this encirclement and suppression incident, the troops led by Zhang Yan hid in the shadows to watch the show.

However, Zhang Yan and the others didn't really stand idly by, and when these bandits and horse bandits were in a desperate situation, they unexpectedly pulled a hand, and immediately won the favor of the bandits and horse bandits.

"All the brothers are also heroes, isn't it condescending to gather in the Wuthering Mountains and Forests, why don't you do it with us, overthrow the tyranny of the empire, and then the marquis will not be a problem, and there will be everything in glory and wealth."

Zhang Yan rescued these bandits and horse bandits who were being hunted down, and then began to persuade them to join the gang.

"The empire is strong now, and we don't have enough people to stuff their teeth."

These bandits and horse bandits are not stupid, they are still very clear about how many pounds and taels they have, and they are not willing to take risks easily.

If they become bandits and horse bandits, they may still be recruited, but once they rebel, there is no way out, and this is a completely different problem.

"Wealth is in danger, how can there be a pie in the sky, anyway, now everyone has nowhere to go, it's better to give it a go and fight for fame and wealth!"

Zhang Yan said with a smile: "I don't hide it from you, I used to be a horse bandit in Xishan, and my life has been difficult in the past few years, and then I joined the rebel army, and now I am the battalion commander of the thousand-man cavalry." ”

Seeing that the unsightly person in front of him turned out to be a battalion commander of a thousand people, these bandits and horse bandits also gasped.

"I can tell you, if you join the gang now, you can still mix a half-official position, if you join the gang late, the position is gone, then you can only be a big soldier."

The main reason why they did not join the rebel army was that there was no one to introduce them.

They are also all goblins, if they join rashly without anyone to introduce them, then they can only be cannon fodder.

Now Zhang Yan is willing to introduce them to the rebel army, the cottages of these bandits and horse bandits have been burned down, and they have suffered heavy losses under the purging of the Yu Cavalry Army, and now they have nowhere to go.

More importantly, they are not willing to stay in the poor ravine for a lifetime, if they can really fight for fame and wealth, it will not be in vain to come to the world.

Zhang Yan made promises and temptations, and under his persuasion, many homeless bandits and horse bandits finally nodded and were willing to join the rebel army.

In order to hide people's eyes, Zhang Yan and the others came to attack the grain road with only more than 1,000 troops, although they were elite, but their manpower was still stretched.

However, as he recruited a large number of bandits and horse bandits, their troops also grew rapidly like a snowball.

In a short period of time, their strength exceeded 3,000 people, and they became a force to be reckoned with.

Although these bandits and horse bandits are currently gathered together as nothing more than a rabble, the hard steel imperial army in front of it is an absolute fiasco.

But fortunately, these bandits and horse bandits are all ruthless and brave people, but the combat ability of individual soldiers is not weak.

With more troops under his command, Zhang Yan's mind became lively, and he set his eyes on the light cavalry unit of the feather cavalry army that came to encircle and suppress them, and decided to do a big deal.