After being abandoned by Liu Bei, Cao Cao begged me to be a military adviser

"My lord, I am willing to be the vanguard and attack Jicheng!"

"I would like to lead my troops to charge and capture Jicheng!"

"I would like to contribute to the prime minister and break through Jicheng!"

Cao Cao was naturally very happy when the soldiers scrambled to make meritorious deeds first.

He took a special look, and Xiahou Dun and Zhang Yan were also seen in the crowd.

Cao Cao ignored the generals and asked, "Where is Zhang Yan?"

"The last general is here!" Zhang Yan took half a step forward, clasping his fists with both hands.

Cao Cao said: "How is the Black Mountain Army doing?"

Zhang Yan was very excited, and said excitedly: "Report to the Prime Minister, my department is practicing day and night, and I look forward to making meritorious service for the Prime Minister as soon as possible!"

"Okay!" Cao Cao nodded, "I agree. Would you like to appoint you as the vanguard to attack Jicheng?"

"It's the end of the day!" Zhang Yan knelt down and bowed to Cao Cao without saying a word.

At this moment, Zhang Yan's heart was surging.

As the leader of the Montenegro army, he has been disliked by Yuan Shao, and even beaten by Yuan Shao has almost no room for survival.

His hatred for the Yuan family is purely natural.

Now that he has just been incorporated by the imperial court, he has been entrusted with a heavy responsibility. This is undoubtedly a great honor for him and the Black Mountain Army.

Cao Cao stood up and threw the token to Zhang Yan: "I will make you the general who seeks the thief, and order you to be the vanguard, and Xiahou Dun will be the supervisor to attack Jicheng!"

"Kneel down to thank the Prime Minister!" Zhang Yan roared, and knelt down to salute Cao Cao again.

"General, hurry up!" Cao Cao hurriedly helped Zhang Yan up.

Cao Cao's operation can be regarded as fooling all the generals present.

Just after Zhang Yan surrendered, he was so heavily used by Cao Cao?

This honor was beyond the reach of Zhang Yun back then.

"Where is Xiahou Dun?" Cao Cao asked again.

"Prime Minister, the last general is here!" Xiahou Dun, who was still in a daze, stood up.

He thought that in such an important battle as the attack on Jicheng, he probably would not appoint himself as the vanguard.

Unexpectedly, he also got a supervisor of the vanguard army.

This is an excellent opportunity for meritorious service.

After all, everyone knows that the current Yuan Shang is a soft persimmon that anyone can handle.

The selection of the vanguard has been decided, and the generals withdrew from the big account one after another.

Only Cao Ren and Xia Houyuan remained in the big tent.

Even Cheng Yu and Xun You came here after hearing the news.

Cao Ren was the first to speak: "Prime Minister, there are so many powerful generals in the army, why do you only choose Zhang Yan as the vanguard?"

Cheng Yu immediately bowed his hands: "Prime Minister, Zhang Yan's troops have not practiced since they surrendered. The generals drink and gamble all day long, and the military discipline is lax. If he is the vanguard, he will definitely lose!"

Xu You also said: "Yuan Shang never dared to fight our army head-on, because he was afraid of you, Prime Minister. If Zhang Yan was ordered to be the vanguard, Yuan Shang would surely defeat him!"

"Hahaha!" Cao Cao laughed, and the last stone in his heart fell.

Originally, he was afraid that something would happen to Zhang Yan, but after listening to Xun You and Cheng Yu's words, he was completely relieved of Zhang Yan.

But the four of them were completely puzzled by Cao Cao's laughter.

Cao Cao said solemnly: "Employees don't doubt people, so why not give Zhang Yan a chance? Our army can still afford defeat!"

This sentence blocked the mouths of the four people.

Chapter 96

Three days later, Zhang Yan led [-] Black Mountain troops to set off from Puyin camp.

Xiahou Dun led [-] soldiers and horses to follow.

The horn of Cao Jun's attack on Youzhou officially sounded.

Yuan Shang soon learned of the news and immediately convened a civil and military discussion.

After the death of Zijianpei, the position of military adviser was succeeded by Juhu, the son of Jushou.

A strong city wall, sticking to Jicheng is Juhu's strategy.

There are not many generals in Hebei, but there are still four generals in Jicheng, Zhang Nan, Ma Yan, and Zhang Yi.

There are more than [-] soldiers and horses, and countless money, food and supplies.

Yuan Shang was not afraid of Cao Jun's attack.

Yuan Shang said, "Cao Cao ordered Zhang Yan to be the vanguard, and Xia Houdun to attack our city of Jicheng as the supervisor. What do you think?"

Jiao Touch took the lead to stand up: "My lord, the so-called Black Mountain Army is nothing more than a mob, and there is no basis for it!"

"That's right!" Zhang Nan also said, "When Duke Yuan was alive in the past, Zhang Yan was as humble as an ant. Today, he voted for Cao and later attacked me in Jicheng. It's like a mantis holding back a car!"

Ma Yan said bluntly: "I don't think that Xiahou Dun is a brave and skilled general. Not to mention being captured alive by Lu Bu, he was shot blind in one eye. How can such a person be used?"

Seeing the generals taunting Zhang Yan one after another, Yuan Shang felt more fighting, and looked at Juhu.

"My lord!" Juhu cupped his hands and signaled: "In my opinion, Cao Jun is already a proud soldier, and there is a saying in the art of war: a proud soldier must be defeated!"

"How can you see it?" Yuan Shang chased after him.

Juhu explained: "Since the Battle of Guandu, Cao's army has won many battles, Yuan Tan, Yuan Xi and Gao Gan all died at the hands of Cao Cao. From the outsiders' point of view, the lord dare not fight Cao Cao head-on, but they don't know that the lord has saved his energy. Rui, ready to go, just one battle is enough to rectify your name!"

"Hahaha!" Yuan Shang laughed loudly: "Well said!"

Juhu bowed his hands: "My lord, I implore you to send troops in person to defeat Zhang Yan with the force of thunder and strengthen our army's morale!"

Yuan Shang immediately made arrangements to stay in Mayan and Zhang Yi to guard Jicheng.

He led Jiao Chu and Zhang Nan's two generals, and led [-] elite soldiers out of Jicheng to the Xiazhai.

Juhu followed the army and conspired with Yuan Shang day and night.

A few days later, Yuan Shang took the lead in setting up a large camp on the dangerous terrain [-] miles outside the city.

A few days later, Zhang Yan led his troops to arrive and set up a camp [-] miles away from Yuan Jun.

Xiahou Dun camped fifteen miles behind Zhang Yan, and the two departments echoed each other from afar.

Zhang Yan, who has hundreds of thousands of Black Mountain troops, has hundreds of thousands of Cao troops as endorsers, and his arrogance is extremely arrogant.

In a few days, he took the initiative to lead [-] soldiers to Yuan Shang's camp to challenge.

Yuan Shang accepted Juhu's suggestion to paralyze the enemy by retreating, and raised the card of avoiding battle.

Seeing that Yuan Shang did not dare to send troops to fight, Zhang Yan became even more arrogant.

He rode forward alone and began to output crazily.

"Yuan Shao is blind, why did you give birth to you, a scum, with Mrs. Liu?"

"Of the four prefectures in Hebei, there is only one Youzhou left!"

"Yuan Tan is dead, Yuan Xi is dead, and Gao Gan is dead too!"

"But you, Yuan Shang, are amazing! You are a good hand when you are bastard!"

"Your mother takes good care of the prime minister, even your wife competes with your mother for favor!"

"You just shrink into the turtle shell and be a bastard, I feel relieved!"

After finishing speaking, Zhang Yan got off his horse and unbuttoned his belt, and went into a rage outside Yuan Jun's camp on the spot.

When the news reached the Chinese army, Yuan Shang was furious.

"Dog thief Zhang Yan, dare to pee at the gate of my camp? You are bullying me too much!"

Juhu hurriedly said: "My lord, calm down, Zhang Yan's move is a provocative act, and our army can use it!"

"Say!" Yuan Shang said.

Juhu said: "My lord fights against Zhang Yan himself, and then pretends to be defeated by Zhang Yan. After he wins, he will be extremely inflated, or have a big celebration banquet. Our army can take advantage of the night to rob the camp, break through the Chinese army and destroy Zhang Yan in one fell swoop!"

"Okay!" Yuan Shang drew out his sword: "Jiao Chu, Zhang Nan listens to the order, and each leads 5000 troops to follow me out of the camp to meet Zhang Yan!"

"Obey!" Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan clasped their fists to signal.

Not long after, Yuan Shang led [-] soldiers out of the camp.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yan was extremely excited.

The big knife in his hand pointed directly at Yuan Shang: "Yuan Laosan, are you finally here?"

"The dog thief insults me, watch me take your dog's life!" Yuan Shang didn't talk nonsense, and rode forward with two knives in hand.

"Looking for death!" Zhang Yan's face turned cold, and he rode forward alone.

The moment the two got close, Zhang Yan slashed across with his sword.

Yuan Shang held two sabers to block, and quickly approached Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan knew that he could not be approached, so he quickly rode his horse back to avoid it.

The big knife has a long handle and cannot be used for close combat.

The hands are dangerous, but not far from the enemy.

The two took turns tugging, each taking advantage of their weapons.

The two fought for dozens of rounds without distinction.

Yuan Shang was struggling and shocked.

He thought he could be slightly better than Zhang Yan.

Unexpectedly, this black mountain thief is really capable.

Zhang Yan was also surprised.

Originally thought that this Yuan Laosan who was pretending to be dead was an incompetent person, but he didn't expect that he was playing like a tiger with two swords.

When the two fought to fifty rounds, they were still evenly matched.

Yuan Shang knew that he was invincible and Ju Shou bluntly pretended to be defeated, so he simply drove back to the army.

Zhang Yan was not prepared to let go of this opportunity, and immediately raised his sword high: "Brothers, kill me!"

"Kill, kill, kill!" Tens of thousands of Black Mountain troops rushed towards Yuan Jun like a tide.

"Kill!" Zhang Nan and Jiao Touch charged one after another.

The two armies fought together.

The Montenegrin Army has an advantage in strength, but its operations are chaotic.

Yuan Jun, who has always fought in positional warfare, was caught off guard by the Black Mountain Army's attack.

Only then did Yuan Shang realize that even if he did not pretend to be defeated, it would be difficult to win.

After less than half an hour of fighting, Yuan Shang ordered to withdraw his troops.

Zhang Yan led the Black Mountain Army to pursue the victory and kill Yuan Jun.

Zhang Yan didn't give up until Yuan Jun fled back to Dazhai one after another.

Zhang Yanming withdraws troops.

After entering the camp, he immediately ordered someone to tell Xiahou Dun the good news, and then held a celebration banquet.

The brothers of the Montenegrin Army couldn't stop laughing.

"Brother, you have finally vented your anger on the brothers!"

"When I was in Changshan, I was often bullied by the Yuan family!"

"It's all right now, it's time for us to bully that grandson of the Yuan family!"

Zhang Yan laughed loudly: "If I hadn't been negligent today, I'm afraid Yuan Shang would have died by now!"