Chapter 155 The Tiger on the Mountain

"kindness……"

With the slight shaking of the arrow shaft in his eyes, Zhang Niujiao woke up from the sudden pain in the coma, and saw the figure next to him with his other eye, it was his adopted son Chu Feiyan, with an anxious look on his face.

"Father, are you awake?" Chu Feiyan's tone was quite worried, "You don't have to worry, I'll invite the best doctor right away."

"Feiyan..." Zhang Niujiao's face was ashen, and he firmly grasped the corner of Chu Feiyan's clothes. This usually simple movement almost exhausted all his strength.

"Don't worry about it, Liu Yuqing's arrow is so powerful." Zhang Niujiao usually speaks in a bluffing voice, which can be heard clearly from a distance of more than ten feet, but now he has to bend down to hear clearly.

"After XX's death, you will inherit the handsome position. You are smarter than me, and you are younger. My adoptive father can trust you."

Chu Feiyan's tears welled up in her eyes, she shook her head lightly: "Father, no, I will cure you."

Zhang Niujiao's palm firmly grasped Chu Feiyan's clothes corner, he didn't expect that this action was too forceful, and in the end he died, and his whole body could no longer move.

"Father? Father!"

Hearing this loud roar, the advancing Boling thief stopped immediately.

Chu Feiyan wailed loudly, tears pouring down like rain, but Zhang Niujiao's body that was trembling because of the pain finally stopped moving. Death might be a kind of relief for him.

Chu Feiyan hugged Zhang Niujiao tightly, and suddenly, a relative stepped out and knelt on the ground.

"Chu Shuai, please obey Zhang Shuai's last order and take over as the commander-in-chief!"

"Shut up! The bones of the adoptive father are not cold, how can this be done?" Chu Feiyan's eyes were full of tears.

As a result, several people stepped forward, followed by dozens and hundreds of people shouting in unison.

"Please Chu Shuai obey!"

"I am willing to serve Chu Shuai as the master!"

One pass ten, ten pass one hundred, the essence of human beings is a repeating machine, and more than ten thousand bandit troops have been infected by the people and atmosphere around them, and they have asked Chu Feiyan to be the commander.

Although Chu Feiyan refused repeatedly, but the public opinion was high and everyone expected him, so he had no choice but to "reluctantly" agree.

Chu Feiyan wiped away the tears on her face, looked at the expectant faces around her, and said loudly: "Chu understands everyone's intentions, but it's really disrespectful, since that's the case, Chu will do his part!"

"Chu Feiyan changed his name to Zhang Yan today and took over as commander in chief. He is bound to avenge his adoptive father."

Hearing Chu Shuai, oh no, it should be Zhang Shuai now. Since Zhang Shuai agreed, the frustration of more than ten thousand subordinates due to the defeat and the death of Zhang Niujiao was swept away, and they cheered happily.

"With Zhang Shuai leading us, we will definitely have a bright future."

"I listened to Zhang Shuai!"

But at this time someone came up and whispered: "Zhang Shuai, now that Niu Jiaoshuai is gone, where should we go, how about you point out a way out for everyone?"

Zhang Yan was categorical and looked to the south.

"Go to Montenegro!"

Taihang Mountain has been a natural danger in Shanxi since ancient times. As the so-called Eight Paths of Taihang, Han Xinxin's soldiers were almost blocked from the Eight Paths of Taihang by Li Zuoche's strategy. And Montenegro is located at the southern end of the Taihang Mountains. There are many peasant rebels among them, but they are not the remnants of the Yellow Turban Bandits.

Ministries such as Lei Gong, Zhang Baiqi, Liu Shi, and Zhang Ba were all stationed in Heishan. At the beginning, Zhang Niujiao felt that there were too many people here, so he advocated developing in the north of Jizhou instead of crowding into the ravines. Thinking of attacking Ying Tao and losing his life.

Zhang Yan finally understood that although the authority of the imperial court was not there, a skinny camel was bigger than a horse after all. The imperial court dispatched a large army to wipe out millions of yellow scarves with ease, let alone his own people.

If you want to survive, you have to get into a ravine. Only in this way, the court will have no time to take care of them. After all, the army of thieves is wreaking havoc on the prefectures and counties. Even a licentious monarch like Han Lingdi will not sit idly by. It will be different in the mountains. Even Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun are here. Let’s drill into the mountains and we will not get along. You fight, what can you do?

After Zhang Niujiao died in battle, his adopted son Chu Feiyan inherited his surname, changed his name to Zhang Yan, continued to command the army, and resolutely went south into the Montenegro area. After Zhang Yan collected the defeated troops, there were still more than 10,000 soldiers, but it aroused the dissatisfaction of Lei Gong, Zhang Baiqi and other ministries.

We have our own faction in Montenegro, why are you here to join in the fun?

Many thieves on hilltops were even closely linked because of this incident, as if they wanted to discuss how to get rid of Zhang Yanjun together. For a while, there was turmoil in the Black Mountain, and the atmosphere became tense. Many thieves did not dare to go down the mountain, for fear of being caught by the enemy. live.

However, as the news of the two blockbusters came out, the news of the internal scuffle in Montenegro disappeared without a trace.

Sun Qing and Wang Dang both had nearly 10,000 soldiers and nearly 1,000 sharp soldiers, but they announced that they had joined Zhang Yan and were appointed by Zhang Yan as the commander-in-chief. Zhang Yan's power suddenly expanded to nearly 50,000 people, and he seemed to have become the number one power in the Black Mountain Army.

Yang Feng, Yu Du, Bai Rao and the other commanders of the Black Mountain Army were at a loss. Sun Qing and Wang Dang were both rebellious and rebellious. ?

In fact, Zhang Yan had specially invited Sun Qing and Wang Dang to join Zhang Niujiao's army long ago, but they were rejected by them. The reason for defecting to Zhang Yan now is quite simple.

Zhang Niujiao's army expanded very fast before, and there was a vague tendency to annex the northern part of Jizhou. King Sun Qing thought that the two of them were unruly people, how could he be willing to be subordinate to others?

Now that Zhang Niujiao was defeated by Yingtao, Zhang Yan's tribe suffered a lot, and he was targeted by many tribes when he joined Montenegro. After some discussions, Sun Qing and Wang Dang finally joined Zhang Yan's men. As the so-called icing on the cake is not as good as giving charcoal in the snow, now Zhang Yan is employing people, and Sun Qing and Wang Dang came to vote, which made him overjoyed, and immediately entrusted him with great power and reused him as his right and left hands.

With Sun Qing and Wang Dang, Zhang Yan also launched several small battles, using both kindness and power, luring many young commanders with six or seven thousand people under his command to join his command, and his power increased greatly in a short time, and his subordinates reached more than one hundred thousand people , vaguely became the leader of the Black Mountain Army. Even Yu Du, Bai Rao and others did not dare to disrespect Zhang Yan, they already had a dominant family, and the court officials dared not attack.

At this time, time also quietly turned a new page. With the end of the war against the Yellow Turbans in various places, the first year of Zhongping passed quietly, and the second year of Zhongping (185) came.

However, during this period of time, Liu Ye, who had been staying in Julu, couldn't sit still any longer, so he simply rode his horse and galloped to Yecheng with dozens of relatives, and wanted to meet Huangfusong in person.