The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 6 006 Attack on Peicheng
It wasn't until this moment that Tao Qian, Chen Deng, Cao Bao and others realized that Zhang Yan was trying to kill someone.

A trace of hope flashed across Chen Deng's eyes looking at Zhang Yan, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but it quickly disappeared without a trace.

On the other hand, Tao Qian, when he saw the soldier killed by Zhang Yan, he would inevitably feel a little bit of regret.But now that the matter has come to this point, he has no choice but to blame Zhang Yan, it will not help the matter, and the dead soldier will not be able to come back to life.

Zhang Yan's face was ashen, and he scanned all the Danyang soldiers standing there with sharp eyes, and saw that their trousers had been taken off in public, so he nodded in satisfaction and said loudly: "Very good. Everyone take off their trousers." Put it on, stand here and wait for my dispatch."

"Here!" The two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Danyang soldiers replied in unison. This time, they did not hesitate, for fear that they would be beheaded by Zhang Yan if they hesitated a little.

Zhang Yan turned around and saw a trace of displeasure in Tao Qian's brows, and immediately cupped his fists and said, "Zhang Yan killed a soldier without the permission of the State Shepherd. !"

Tao Qian sighed lightly, waved his hands and said: "Forget it, Captain Zhang also killed people to enforce the discipline of the army. These people have been with me for too long, so it is inevitable that they are a little arrogant. Captain Zhang will do it for me. It is not a crime to rectify it. Captain Zhang, these soldiers are the most powerful in Xuzhou, I will hand them all over to you now, and hope that you will lead them to successfully complete the mission of attacking Cao Jun's grain and grass camp."

Zhang Yan clasped his fists and said, "Please rest assured, my lord, Zhang Yan will definitely do his best to complete this important mission."

"Okay, then I will leave everything to Captain Zhang!" Tao Qian stretched out his hand actively, grabbed Zhang Yan's hand, and grasped it firmly, which shows that he has high hopes for Zhang Yan. You have arranged to practice wine, wait for a while..."

"My lord, you don't need to drink the practice wine. We'd better save it for the celebration bar when we come back." Zhang Yan interrupted Tao Qian's words, and said with confidence.

"Okay, then wait for your triumphant return. At that time, I will hold a big banquet in the city, and I must celebrate your achievements!"

Zhang Yan looked up at the night sky, and said to Tao Qian: "My lord, it's getting late, and the sky has completely darkened. I want to start now."

Seeing that Zhang Yan was about to leave, Tao Qian immediately said: "There is still a long way to go to Pei County. If we go on foot, it will not only take time, but also take a lot of effort. I have already ordered [-] horses to be prepared. Everyone rides one horse, if we set off now, we will arrive at dawn the next day."

"My lord is very considerate, and I will admire you in the end." Zhang Yan said politely.

Tao Qian smiled, turned around and said to Cao Bao who was standing behind him, "Take Captain Zhang to the stables and let them each choose a horse. After that, go to the granary and let them each bring three days' worth of dry food .”

"Here!"

Cao Bao clasped his fists in response, and then said to Zhang Yan: "Lieutenant Zhang, please follow me with your subordinates!"

Zhang Yan nodded, and with an order, the 99 Danyang soldiers who stood motionless followed him to the stables.

Seeing Zhang Yan leaving the prefect's mansion with the Danyang soldiers, Tao Qian couldn't help feeling some doubts in his heart, turned to Chen Deng beside him and said, "Yuanlong, if Zhang Yan fails, do you have any countermeasures?"

Chen Deng frowned, thought for a while, and then replied: "My lord, if Zhang Yan does not succeed, we can temporarily abandon Pengcheng, retreat to the East China Sea, and protect Tancheng alone. Tancheng is the strongest city in Xuzhou. Sufficient, if you stick to it, you can resist Cao Jun for a year and a half without any problem."

"I'll leave this matter to you. If Zhang Yan doesn't succeed, we have a way out," Tao Qian said.

"Here!"

Zhang Yan followed Cao Bao to the stables, and each of the 3000 people picked a horse, and asked Cao Bao to call in another Danyang soldier to make up for the vacancy of the Danyang soldier he beheaded.

Then he followed Cao Bao to the granary to collect dry food for three days before gathering three thousand Danyang soldiers to the west gate.

But Zhang Yan went to the prefect's mansion and asked Mu Taoqian of Xuzhou to send soldiers to pretend to attack Cao Jun's camp in order to attract Cao Jun's attention.As long as there is any movement from the Xuzhou soldiers at the east gate, then he can lead [-] Danyang soldiers to sneak out of Pengcheng from the west gate, bypass Cao Jun's camp, and head towards Pei County.

Tao Qian adopted Zhang Yan's suggestion and sent Cao Bao to lead two thousand soldiers out of the city from the east gate to pretend to attack Cao Jun's camp.

Only then did Zhang Yan leave the prefect's mansion with peace of mind, turned over and jumped on the horse, shouted "drive", and immediately galloped towards the west gate.

In an open space at the west gate of Pengcheng, three thousand Danyang soldiers rode tall horses, waiting there quietly, ready for battle.

Not long after, Zhang Yan came from the city on a horse and waited near the city gate with these three thousand soldiers.

About ten minutes later, there was a deafening shout from the east gate, and Zhang Yan knew that Cao Bao had started to act.However, he did not act immediately, but waited for a while.

In order to successfully slip out of the city without being discovered by Cao Jun, Zhang Yan specially wrapped the horse's hoof with cloth, so that the sound made by the horse's hoof when it touches the ground will not be so loud.

About ten minutes later, a scout ran over from the east gate. After seeing Zhang Yan, he directly reported the situation of the east gate to Zhang Yan.

After hearing this, Zhang Yan's face suddenly burst into joy, and he shouted at the three thousand Danyang soldiers who were waiting in strict formation: "Let's go!"

Following Zhang Yan's order, the city gate of the west gate was slowly opened, Zhang Yan turned his horse's head, and was the first to rush out of the city, while the three thousand Danyang soldiers followed closely behind Zhang Yan , A group of people filed out of the city, the whole team maintained a strict formation, and soon sailed into the night.

Zhang Yan took these three thousand Danyang soldiers, cleverly avoided Cao Jun's camp, ran for about five miles, suddenly changed the direction of the march, and galloped towards Pei County.

Around Ping Ming, Zhang Yan led the team to Peixian County and temporarily rested in a forest.Running fast all night, it can be said that he was exhausted, not to mention that he didn't know much about the situation of Cao Jun in Peixian County, so Zhang Yan didn't dare to act rashly.

He left the army to rest in the woods, arranged for good people to take turns to watch, and he himself selected a few more alert soldiers, and followed him to Peixian County, where Cao Jun was stationed, to see the situation.

Leaving the army behind, Zhang Yan and five soldiers quietly came to the outskirts of Peixian County, hiding in a small forest outside the city.

Looking from a distance, there is a big flag with the word "Cao" planted on the tower of Peicheng, and the north wind is fluttering in the sky of Peicheng, but there are very few Cao soldiers standing on the tower.

In order to get a closer look at the reality of Peicheng, Zhang Yan decided to take a risk.

He let the five soldiers stay in the woods, put on a white cloak that he had already prepared, lay down on the snow, and then covered his whole body with the white cloak, slowly Crawling forward, like a snake, approaching Peicheng bit by bit.

Since he was a mercenary killer in his previous life, how to survive, lurk and assassinate in the wild has long been out of the question for him.

He carefully squirmed on the snow, and kept an eye on the movement on the Peicheng tower. Once he found anything unusual, he would lie motionless in the snow.

Zhang Yan crawled forward for a distance of almost 200 meters, and he could clearly see Cao Bing on Peicheng. He was lying there, motionless, like a hibernating snake, with a pair of hot eyes closely watching the top of the tower. everything of.

He glanced at the Cao soldiers on the tower of Peicheng. There were indeed only a few of them, and they were listless, some even dozed off with their spears in their hands.

At this time, the sky was not yet bright, and the sky and the earth were all gray. Zhang Yan reckoned that this time would be around four or five o'clock in the morning. Cao Bing must also be sleeping soundly.

He thought to himself: "At first I thought Cao Jun's defense would be very tight, but I didn't expect it to be so slack. The tiger also dozed off, it must be that Le Jin thought that Xuzhou would do his best to deal with Cao Jun's main force, and was negligent in guarding against it. "

But for the sake of caution, Zhang Yan walked around Peicheng and thoroughly checked the situation in Peicheng. Basically, it can be concluded that Cao Jun's defense is very lax. If he takes a surprise attack at this time, it will inevitably Cao Jun can be caught off guard.

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Zhang Yan's face, and he secretly said happily: "God help me too!"

He immediately went back to the grove, and asked one of the soldiers to go back to deliver an order that all the troops come here secretly, while he and the other four soldiers stayed to continue to monitor Peicheng.

Not long after, all the soldiers gathered secretly in the grove.

Zhang Yan selected ten archers who were good at archery, and with him, they quietly approached Peicheng, while the rest of the soldiers waited in the small forest.

Zhang Yan led ten archers who were good at archery. Each of them was covered with a layer of white cloth. They crawled carefully on the snowy ground and slowly approached Peicheng.

When everyone climbed to about [-] steps away from Peicheng, Zhang Yan saw that the soldiers upstairs in Peicheng were still dozing off, so he ordered the ten archers to aim at a Cao soldier each and shoot, while he took out Bow and arrow, ready to take over the remaining three Cao soldiers alone.

Eleven people put their arrows on the bowstring one after another, aiming at Cao Bing standing guard on the tower, but hearing Zhang Yan's soft cry, eleven arrows flew directly towards the tower of Peicheng.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

The arrow pierced the sky and shot towards Cao Bing with a whistling sound. The Cao Bing standing guard fell one by one, pierced by the arrow.

Zhang Yan shot one arrow, followed by the second and third arrows. When the eleven Cao soldiers were shot dead and fell to the ground with a muffled sound, the other two Cao soldiers were awakened immediately. Cao Bing, who was lying in a pool of blood, had expressions of surprise on their faces. Just as they were about to shout, two cold rays shot directly through their throats, preventing them from shouting. They fell to the ground and died in struggle. .

After the soldiers standing guard on the city tower were dealt with, under Zhang Yan's order, eleven people immediately rushed towards Peicheng. After a short time, they arrived at the base of the city wall, and took out their already The prepared flying hook was thrown to the tower.

The flying hook was thrown onto the tower and hooked on a corner of the city wall. Zhang Yan and the others pulled the rope tied to the flying hook vigorously with their hands. After confirming that it was enough to bear their weight, they began to pull it with both hands. Rope, kicked on the city wall with both feet, and began to climb up.

(End of this chapter)