The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 349 Chapter 348
Zhang Yan led [-] elite cavalry in pursuit all the way, and encountered many troubles along the way. Xun Chen seemed to know that Zhang Yan was going to lead his troops in pursuit, so he set up suspicious formations, and every time he reached a fork in the road, it would always cost Zhang Yan a long time time to find them.

It was not until the evening that Zhang Yan pursued for fifty miles. Not only did he waste time and effort, he gradually lost the news of Xun Chen's army.

"Regent, if you keep searching like this, you don't know when you will find it." Sitting beside Zhang Yan, Jia Xu expressed his opinion on the army looking for Xun Chen.

Zhang Yandao: "Does the military division have any other ideas?"

Jia Xu thought for a while and said slowly: "Xun Chen led the army to support Jinyang. Since their destination is Jinyang, then this is easy to handle. Now we don't have to care about where they are. The regent just needs to lead the army directly towards Jinyang. Xun Chen’s army has few cavalry and many infantry. It can force a maximum of sixty to one hundred miles a day, but our army is all cavalry, and their moving speed is faster than theirs. It is more than twice as much, and it is absolutely not a problem to run three hundred miles a day. Therefore, the subordinates thought that as long as our army moved to their front first, and then set up an ambush on the only way leading to Jinyang, there would be no worries. to Xun Chen's army."

After Zhang Yan heard this, he laughed and said, "Military master's wonderful plan, why didn't I think of this? In this way, we can wait for work and kill Xun Chen by surprise! I will give an order..."

"Prince Regent, please wait!"

"Why, is there anything wrong?"

Jia Xu said: "There is nothing wrong with it, but if we can send a few cavalry to chase after Xun Chen, so that they are still in a high state of tension, so that they can't guess that we will rush in front of them in advance to ambush, Perhaps this tactic will be more effective than simply going in front of them to ambush."

Zhang Yan thought about it for a while, and felt that what Jia Xu said was very reasonable, so he immediately called Lu Meng and gave him [-] cavalry, and asked him to lead the [-] cavalry to scatter around, creating a momentum that he was always following Xun Chen's army.

Lü Meng took the command, and after a short rest, Zhang Yan led Zhang Liao, Xu Chu, Gan Ning, Jia Xu and others, as well as [-] elite cavalry, left here quickly and went directly to Jinyang.

If you want to enter Bingzhou from Jizhou, you must go to Jingxing Pass, and Jingxing Pass is also a battleground for military strategists. After discussing it, Zhang Yan and Jia Xu decided to set up an ambush at Jingxing Pass to attack Xun Chen and others, and then led the army. Entering Bingzhou and approaching the city of Jinyang, Cao Cao was completely wiped out in one fell swoop.

Zhang Yan led the army to Jingxing Pass at starry night, galloping all the way, without sleep, for more than 200 miles in a row, and finally arrived at Jingxing County at Pingming Ten the next day.

Zhang Yan did not rest, and led the army directly to attack Jingxing County. There were a small number of Cao Jun soldiers in the county. The Han army suddenly arrived. These Cao Jun soldiers and the people in the city were unexpected. , Cao Jun's soldiers couldn't resist and retreated one after another.

But Zhang Yan had been on guard for a long time, so Zhang Liao, Xu Chu, Gan Ning and others blocked the rest of the city gates and wiped out Cao's army in the city.

Cao Jun was all executed, but Zhang Yan and the common people did nothing wrong. At this time, the county magistrate of Jingxing County immediately led the county officials to surrender.

Zhang Yan then asked the county magistrate, and only then did he know that there were not many guards at Jingxing Pass, and the general guarding the pass was the county magistrate's son.

So Zhang Yan asked the county magistrate to write a letter to his son, asking him to lead the crowd to surrender.The county magistrate was obedient, and immediately wrote a letter, sent someone to Jingxing Pass and handed it to his son.

After the county magistrate's son received the letter, he immediately led his troops out of Jingxing Pass and returned to the county seat.

Zhang Yan took Jingxing Pass without any effort, and also occupied Jingxing County, but still let the magistrate and his son of Jingxing County take up their original posts, but the soldiers stationed at Jingxing Pass were replaced, and Zhang Liao led [-] soldiers to guard it. Guan, he led the rest of the people to stay in the county.

In addition, Zhang Yan also sent scouts to inquire about the news.Although Zhang Yan occupied Jingxing County, he still hung Cao Cao's banner as a confuse.

A day later, news came from the scouts that Xun Chen had led an army to Yuanshi County, which was not far away, and it was estimated that they would arrive tomorrow.

Zhang Yan then sent an order to get everyone ready, and even gave preferential treatment to the father and son of the county magistrate of Jingxing County. If they can help him completely defeat Xun Chen's army, they will be promoted to rank after the event is completed.

This was undoubtedly a good temptation for the county magistrate and his son. Without even thinking about it, the two of them immediately agreed, and they would do whatever Zhang Yan asked them to do.

At the same time, Lu Meng and Gao Shun joined forces, and the army followed Xun Chen's army all the way, but always kept a distance of fifty miles, neither too close nor too far away.

In the evening of the next day, Xun Chen led the army to Jingxing County, and sent someone to notify the county magistrate in advance, asking them to prepare meals and prepare a full meal.

So, according to Zhang Yan's instructions, the county magistrate secretly poured Mongolian sweat medicine into the meals. When Xun Chen and others arrived in Jingxing County with their army, it was already dusk. The group of people were tired after a long journey. Hungry again, the county magistrate asked for meals to be served, and distributed them one by one. Xun Chen and the group of soldiers devoured the prepared meals.

After eating and drinking enough, Xun Chen stood up and was about to leave, but suddenly found his head dizzy, and saw the county magistrate with a smirk on his face, and Zhang Yan appeared behind the county magistrate at some point, Looking at him, he smiled faintly.

Xun Chen looked around and saw that the people around him were all dazed, and soon fell asleep. Only then did he realize that he had followed Zhang Yan's way, pointing at the county magistrate, he said weakly: "You...you... ..."

Before he finished speaking, Xun Chen's body went limp, and he fell directly to the ground, unconscious.

Xun Chen slept until the afternoon of the next day, and then he gradually woke up. When he opened his eyes, his head still hurt a little, but he found that he was locked in a cell, and there was a man named Xun lying beside him. Wang Lun's people.

He barely sat up, looked around, and found that there was no one else in the cell except the two of them, and Wang Lun was still fast asleep.

It wasn't that the county magistrate's Mongolian sweat medicine was applied too hard, but that Xun Chen was too tired. Walking all the way from Handan City to this place was nothing short of a miracle for him who was physically weak.

At this time, the door of the cell was opened from the outside. Seeing that Xun Chen had woken up, a jailer froze for a moment, then turned and walked out.

After almost an incense stick, the door of the cell was pushed open again, and with the dim light on, Xun Chen could vaguely see the appearance of the person who walked in from the outside.

That stern face, deep eyes, strong physique, and the most striking thing is the golden armor on his body, which is enough to prove his identity.

Besides the regent Zhang Yan, who else?

Zhang Yan was alone. After entering the cell, he glanced at Xun Chen, and then at Wang Lun who was still asleep. Without saying a word, he just stood quietly outside the cell. He stared at Xun Chen closely.

Xun Chen felt uncomfortable being watched by Zhang Yan, and was about to speak, but Zhang Yan suddenly turned and left, and walked to the door of the cell without looking back, without saying a word, not knowing what it meant.

Xun Chen couldn't bear the loneliness anymore, and finally said, "Hey! What do you mean? How long do you plan to keep me in prison? Since I've been captured by you, I'm going to kill you or cut me up, so please listen to me!"

Zhang Yan stopped in his tracks, turned his head to look at Xun Chen, and said softly, "You want to die? I won't let you die! You set up an ambush and almost killed me. It's too cheap to kill you with one knife." is you."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Yan turned around and went out. The door of the cell closed with a bang, and everything in the cell returned to calm, as if nothing had happened, and the darkness gradually invaded the entire cell.

After Zhang Yan returned to the county government hall from the cell, he said to the county magistrate: "Without my order, no one can open the cell and deliver meals to the prisoners in the cell on time. Just keep him locked up like this. What did he say?" Don't believe anything, wait until I capture and kill Cao Cao, and then come back to deal with him!"

"Here!" The county magistrate didn't dare to provoke Zhang Yan, so he could only obey his orders. Moreover, the county magistrate seemed to have seen a situation that Cao's family was dying, and he had to find a backer as soon as possible.

Undoubtedly, the regent Zhang Yan is the biggest backer, following him, he will be popular and hot in the future.

After Zhang Yan finished his confession, he rode a fast horse and left the county office, and then handed it over to the county magistrate, and promised to promote the county magistrate to be the prefect of Changshan County after the matter was completed.

The county magistrate got the benefits, so he naturally worked hard for Zhang Yan, and personally let his son take care of the cell, for fear of making a little mistake.

Zhang Yan rode his horse and galloped to the outside of Jingxing County. Xu Chu, Gan Ning, Jia Xu and others had gathered cavalry and were waiting there. More than 1 Cao soldiers had already set off in advance, passing through Jingxing Pass towards Jinyang.

"set off!"

As soon as Zhang Yan gave an order, he left Jingxing County with his cavalry and headed towards Taiyuan County.

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Bingzhou, Taiyuan County, Jinyang City.

Cao Cao led Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Xu You and other [-] cavalry, and after several days and nights of long journeys, they finally arrived at the city of Jinyang.

At this time, the banner with the word "Cao" was still flying on Jinyang City, but the city gate was closed tightly, and there were many soldiers on the city tower. Those soldiers were walking around the city wall, back and forth, seemingly The defense is very tight, but in fact it is just a show, showing it to the enemy army, so that the enemy army knows that there are still many troops in Jinyang City.

According to the information obtained by the scouts, Wang Ling sent troops to fortify the upper layer of the road from Shangdang to Jinyang, in order to hold back the army of Tai Shici and Xu Huang, and to give Cao Cao more time to bring troops to aid. .

Cao Cao led his cavalry to the city of Jinyang, and immediately shouted to the tower: "Open the city gate!"

(End of this chapter)