The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 31 031 Meeting Zang Ba
Following Chang Xi's order, more than a dozen cavalry around Chang Xi rushed forward, but because it was in a busy city, no one drew their weapons.

Facing the dozen or so cavalrymen rushing towards him, Zhang Yan showed no fear at all. He clamped his legs tightly to the horse under his seat, and stopped motionless in place. With only his hands, he froze the dozen or so rushing cavalrymen. The cavalrymen knocked down their horses one by one, and the pain made the cavalrymen cry for their fathers and mothers.

"A group of trash, so many people, but you can't beat one of them, what's the use of you?"

Chang Xi threw away his whip, drew out his waist knife, shouted "Jia", and rushed towards Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan remained majestic and motionless. When Chang Xi attacked, he lowered his head to avoid the blade, clenched his fist with his left hand, and struck out in an instant, directly hitting Chang Xi's face, but with a crisp sound, the bridge of Chang Xi's nose broke The blood spurted out from the nasal cavity, if Chang Xi hadn't been better at horsemanship, he might have ended up like that group of soldiers already.

"Okay!" The crowd watching couldn't help laughing and applauded loudly.

Chang Xi was hit by Zhang Yanyi's fist, and felt very ashamed, so he turned his horse's head and raised his knife to kill him from behind.

Zhang Yan didn't even look at it. When Chang Xi was about to arrive, he suddenly rose into the air, put his hands on the horse's back, kicked his feet backwards, kicked Chang Xi off the horse, and fell heavily to the ground.

"A strong man has great skills! It's a pity that with such a good skill, it's a pity not to serve as a soldier, go to battle to kill the enemy, and make great achievements!"

In the crowd, a man wearing armor and an iron helmet squeezed out. He was about 27 or [-] years old. I don't know his name, but he is also a hero.

Just as this person appeared, dozens of heavily armed soldiers came behind him, all dressed in the same clothes as Chang Xi and others.

Chang Xi and the others got up from the ground one after another and walked to the man. The villain complained first, "General Qi, that guy robbed our horse. I asked him for it, but he didn't give it to him, and even hurt him." .The last general is no match for us. We have embarrassed the general. Please ask the general to be the master for us..."

The pedestrians present all sighed after hearing this, but no one dared to stand up and speak out.

The man raised his hand, stopped the voice of Chang Xi and the others, took two steps forward, looked at Zhang Yan carefully, cupped his hands and said: "This strong man, is my subordinate telling the truth?"

"The truth is, your subordinates unleashed a frightened fierce horse to run rampant in the market. If I hadn't stopped it in time, that child would have been trampled by the horse's hooves." Zhang Yan said truthfully.

The man turned his head, looked at Chang Xi with cold eyes, and asked, "Is what he said all the truth?"

Although the voice was not loud, the words were very shocking. Chang Xi said tremblingly: "The horses were frightened and ran away, rushed out of the stables, and broke into the market, so I led people to chase them..."

"Bastard! What did you say just now?" the man said angrily.

Chang Xi bowed his head and remained silent, not daring to refute anymore.

"What are you still doing standing here, hurry up and take someone back to the barracks, and don't cause trouble for me here!"

"Here!" Chang Xi led the people back angrily.

The man turned around, cupped his hands at Zhang Yan and said, "This strong man, everyone, Zang Ba's incompetence in governing the army has harmed everyone. I will compensate you for everything damaged by the horse today. Please calculate the price. At noon today Go to the barracks to receive compensation."

"Zang Ba? It turns out that he is Zang Ba!" Zhang Yan once again looked at Zang Ba carefully, and appreciated the way Zang Ba handled the problem.

Zang Ba asked the soldiers to help the vendors rearrange their booths, while he walked straight up to Zhang Yan, reaching out his hand to touch the horse sitting under Zhang Yan, but the horse took two steps back as if unwilling.

"If this horse is really owned by the general's camp, I will return the horse to the general." Zhang Yan jumped off the horse and cupped his hands towards Zang Ba.

Zang Ba looked at the horse with affection, but he shook his head and said: "This is a top-quality horse I bought from outside the customs. It was born in Wusun Kingdom and is called Wuyun Ta Snow. I have been buying it for a long time, but I have never been able to tame it. I never thought about it, but you tamed it. It seems that all of this is God's will."

"This horse is too expensive, I really can't have it, the general should keep it for riding."

"Hehe, the black cloud treading snow horse only recognizes one master in its life. Since it has recognized you as its master, it is willing to be driven by you. It will never get close to another person. Even if I bring him back, I will ride on it." No. It would be better to just give this dark cloud riding snow horse to you."

"Give it to me?" Zhang Yan was a little surprised, he didn't expect Zang Ba to be so generous.

"Yes, I want to give it to you. You are so young and so agile. None of my subordinates have beaten you just now. It shows that you are not weak in force. You put your own life and death aside and saved people with righteousness. , It is really admirable. What is lacking in my account is people like you. As long as you follow me, I guarantee that you will definitely become a leader one day. Where is the general of the horse..."

The more Zang Ba talked, the more excited he became, Zhang Yan finally understood that the purpose of Zang Ba's gift of horses was just to win over him.

He laughed and said: "General Zang's kindness is appreciated by Zhang, but if Zhang does not become Prime Minister of Pengcheng in the future, he will definitely vote for General Zang..."

Before Zhang Yan finished speaking, the expression on Zang Ba's face changed. He looked at Zhang Yan with surprised eyes, and asked in disbelief, "What did you just say? Are you Prime Minister Pengcheng?"

Zhang Yan nodded.

"Pengcheng Prime Minister Zhang Yan?" Zang Ba asked again.

"It's down."

The muscles on Zang Ba's face trembled twice, and he regretted what he said just now. It's only strange that he started to win over Zhang Yan without even asking his name clearly.

However, he can't be blamed for this. The first time he saw Zhang Yan, he had the urge to take it for his own use. After all, no matter who sees someone as powerful as Zhang Yan, he will start to recruit him. of.

"Haha...hahaha...the flood rushed into the Dragon King Temple, and the family no longer knew each other. It turns out that you are Zhang Yan, the chancellor of Pengcheng who defeated Cao Cao's tens of thousands of troops with a single horse...It's really too much. Coincidentally..." Zang Ba laughed, but it was not very natural.

Zhang Yan is not only Prime Minister of Pengcheng, but also a captain of the military guards, and the story of Zhang Yan is still widely spread in Xuzhou.

In fact, these were rumors spread by people, Zhang Yan laughed it off when he heard it, never thought that Zang Ba actually took it seriously.

Zang Ba is also a person who knows and values ​​heroes. Whenever he hears Zhang Yan's story, he has an urge to make friends.However, he was now transferred to Tancheng, responsible for defending the security of Tancheng, and he couldn't escape for a while.Otherwise, he would have gone to Pengcheng to visit him long ago.

"I didn't expect that I would meet General Zang here. I have heard about the legendary story of General Zang. I came to Tancheng this time to visit General Zang face to face. I never thought that we would meet here by chance. .”

"Master Zhang, this is not a place to talk, let's go somewhere else."

Zang Ba was also a bold person, so he dismissed the team immediately, and took Zhang Yan to a restaurant by the road alone, tied the horse to the post at the door, and asked the store for good wine and food, ready to drink to his heart's content.

The two hit it off right away, and Zang Ba was even more delighted. Taking advantage of the time when the food and drink were not served, he asked, "Master Zhang, there is something I've always wanted to ask. I don't know if I should ask it or not?"

"General Zang just ask."

"The same day Cao Cao led an army to attack and surrounded Pengcheng. It is rumored that Master Zhang rushed into Cao's camp alone, killed tens of thousands of Cao's troops, and almost killed Cao Cao. I wonder if the rumor is true?"

"Hehe, it's just a misinformation. It's not enough to believe it. However, I did win more with less that day. I set fire to Cao's camp, and then attacked Cao's army, which forced Cao Cao to retreat."

"Is it true that he fought against Dian Wei and defeated Dian Wei together?"

"It is true that we fought against Dian Wei, but we did not defeat Dian Wei. It was just that at that time, due to the situation, Dian Wei didn't want to fight and retreated first. If the fight really goes on, I'm afraid I may not be able to win..."

After Zang Ba finished his proof, he said angrily, "Damn it, why did these things become different when they got to my ears?"

"So, don't believe those hearsay, they are all fiction."

"It's a pity that I wasn't in Pengcheng at the time. If I was there, I would definitely be able to assist Mr. Zhang from the side. How could Cao Cao escape alive? After Cao Cao's defeat, he will lose his army and generals. Lead the army to attack Xuzhou again, and then I must compete with him!" Zang Ba's words revealed a bit of regret, but also implied a sense of ambition.

Zhang Yan heard the voice, but remained calm. Although he really wanted to persuade Zang Ba to join him, it was absolutely impossible with his current strength.

In contrast, Zang Ba holds a heavy army and has enough capital to separate one side, but for some reason, Zang Ba doesn't seem to have this intention, but willingly submits to Tao Qian.

Without thinking about it, he changed the subject and said, "By the way, the horse that General Zang gave me is so expensive, I'm afraid I can't accept it. But General Zang also said that Wu Yunta Xuema only recognizes one master in his life. , if you return it again, I’m afraid it will be a display in General Zang’s stable. How about this, how much General Zang paid to buy it back, I bought it from General Zang at the original price. Wouldn’t it be wonderful?”

"Not good!" Zang Ba's face changed, and he slammed the table.

Zhang Yan hurriedly asked: "General Zang, what's wrong?"

"Since I have already said that I will give this horse to you, what I say is like water poured out, and it has already been overwhelmed. Besides, if you don't want the horse I gave you, are you looking down on me? " Zang Ba said angrily.

Zhang Yan hurriedly explained: "General Zang, don't get me wrong, I didn't mean that, I meant..."

"I don't care what you mean. Since you tamed this horse, then this horse belongs to you. Why are there so many scruples? If you still treat me, Zang Ba, as a friend, you will accept this horse." , otherwise, we will have different ways, we will not conspire with each other, we will go our own way, and no one will care about each other!"

Zhang Yan persuaded: "General Zang calm down, Zhang takes back what I just said, General Zang pretends not to hear, I just accept the horse that General Zang gave me!"

Zang Ba changed his face faster than turning the pages of a book. He was angry just now, but now he laughed happily, stretched out his long arms, put his arms around Zhang Yan's shoulders, and said loudly: "This is my good brother." Well! Hahaha..."

(End of this chapter)