Chapter 368 Helpless

Zhang Yan frowned: "What? Didn't Sun Qing attack Pingyang County and Linfen a few days ago? Why did he suddenly ask for help?"

"Sun Shuai's letter is here, Zhang Shuai please read it."

The messenger took a step back, took out a sweat-soaked letter from his arms, and handed it to Zhang Yan.

Without further ado, Zhang Yan took the letter and opened it to read. The more she read, the more she frowned, and she couldn't help snorting.

"I didn't expect Liu Ye to get rid of the Huns so quickly. It came so quickly."

"Zhang Shuai, what did Sun Qingxin say?"

The speaker had a square face, a big mouth, and a strong body. He was Wang Dang, the young commander in the Black Mountain Army who was second only to Zhang Yan. His strength in his hands was comparable to that of Sun Qing. He had always been Zhang Yan's right-hand man.

Zhang Yan snorted: "When Sun Qing attacked Wenxi County, he was surrounded by the enemy's Zhangjabu cavalry. After a fierce battle, he suffered heavy casualties, nearly half of the casualties. Now he can only rely on the camp to defend against the enemy's cavalry assault and ask for help."

When Wang Dang heard the words, his face was worried: "General Anton opened his jaw? He is a famous general under Liu Ye's command. So Liu Ye has already eliminated the Huns and sent troops south?"

Zhang Yan nodded, and said to himself: "It's okay, Yu Fuluo is not easy to deal with. Although Liu Ye defeated Yu Fuluo and Li Jue and Guo Si, he must have suffered heavy losses, and our Black Mountain Army's 100,000 elite soldiers are recharging their energy , took Guanzhong in one go.”

Hearing Zhang Yan's words, Wang Dang nodded: "That's true. I heard that Liu Ye only brought 30,000 troops when he went north. Yu Fuluo, Li Jue and Guo Si combined had 100,000 troops. Even if Liu Ye won It is estimated that it is also a remnant victory."

Zhang Yan hummed, then turned around and said: "Wang Dang, go and count the soldiers and horses, and prepare food and grass. When the time comes, this commander will personally lead an army of 50,000 to come out and wipe out the Guanzhong in one fell swoop!"

"promise!"

Wang Dang turned around and left, but it didn't take long before he walked in worried.

"Huh? Why are you back?" Zhang Yan asked in confusion.

"Shuai Zhang! General Pan Feng of Jizhou led 30,000 troops west to Huguan, stationed in the eighth path of Taihang, and stared at me at Montenegro."

"What?" Zhang Yan's face darkened, and then she walked to the map, stared at the map for a long time, and sighed.

"It seems that Liu Ye has already made a plan to prevent our army from going out."

Wang Dang stepped forward: "Shuai Zhang, are you saying that Liu Ye sent Han Fu to send troops?"

Zhang Yan sneered: "Nonsense, the emperor is in Liu Yuqing's hands. Naturally, he can use it as he wants. Liu Yuqing issued an edict to Han Fu in the name of the emperor of the Han family, ordering him to go west to Huguan and attack our Montenegro." Jun, does Han Fu dare to disagree?"

Wang Dang frowned immediately: "In this way, Pan Feng led the army to station on the flank of our army, threatening me at any time, old and weak, women and children in Montenegro. If the commander-in-chief leads the troops out in person, I'm afraid Pan Feng will be serious. .”

Zhang Yan nodded and smiled wryly: "That's right. Pan Feng didn't lead his army directly to attack our army, but stood still after reaching the Eight Routes of Taihang. Obviously he didn't want to fight our army desperately. Order, just follow orders."

Zhang Yan led the army to entrenched in Heishan, and has long become a military force that cannot be ignored in Jizhou and Bingzhou. The power to break through a million Montenegrin army.

But now Liu Ye, who has always been strong against the bandit army, went south and led his army to stop Sun Qing's troops. Obviously, he wanted to kill Sun Qing and leave Sun Qing's troops completely. Han Fu was naturally willing to do it for him if he could break an arm of the Black Mountain Army. Of.

All of a sudden, Zhang Yan was in a mess. He thought that Liu Ye's army was weak and would entangle with the Huns and Li Jue and Guo Si for a long time, but he didn't expect that Liu Ye would use his troops so quickly, almost wiped out the Huns with a thunderbolt. , During the ten-month period, the army went south and surrounded Sun Qing.

Xu He has already led hundreds of thousands of troops to sweep across the Central Plains. Could it be that he has to stay in Montenegro?

The key point is that Sun Qingbu must find a way to rescue him, otherwise who in the Black Mountain Army will be able to obey him in the future?

Zhang Yan thought about it, then turned around and looked at Wang Dang.

"Wang Dang, I ordered you to lead your troops, Zhang Leigong and Zhang Baiqi to rescue Sun Qing, do you dare?"

Wang Dang sighed and said bluntly: "Commander, it's not that I don't have courage, but Liu Ye's army has a lot of cavalry, and our Montenegro army is mostly infantry. If the enemy troops harass with light cavalry, the army may not be able to reach it in a day's march." Thirty miles, don't say that Sun Qing can't go, even I have to risk my life."

Zhang Yan was silent, and he also knew that Wang Dang was telling the truth.

Rescuing Sun Qing was easy, but the hard part was bringing him back to Montenegro.

There are a lot of cavalry in the Liangzhou Army, even if Wang Dang successfully leads his troops to join Sun Qing, Liu Ye will not need to fight them at all, but only need to send cavalry to harass them, the Black Mountain Army, which is mostly infantry, will not be able to move at all.

Is it possible that a strong man really wants to cut off his wrist?

"Wang Dang! So-and-so gathered all the horses in the Black Mountain Army, and you personally lead the troops to attack. Are you sure that you will be able to attack Sun Qing inside and outside before Liu Ye's main force arrives, and completely defeat Zhang Jaw!"

Zhang Yan asked Wang Danghe desperately.

"Dare! Isn't it Liangzhou soldiers? My Wang Dang is not scared too much."

Wang Dang agreed immediately. He was also a character who followed Zhang Yan in the rampage in the mountain of corpses and blood. Now that Zhang Yan was so excited, he immediately agreed.

"Okay, I'll recruit a war horse for you."

Zhang Yan immediately recruited war horses in the black mountains, and even the angry horses used for plowing were pulled from the fields to the battlefield. Finally, Wang Dang gathered more than 4,500 temporary cavalry.

Looking at the 4,500 strong cavalry in front of him, Zhang Yan felt quite moved, and walked slowly to Wang Dang.

"Marshal, what's your order?" Wang Dang spoke first.

Zhang Yan smiled gratifiedly, and patted Wang Dang's shoulder lightly: "Wang Dang, I leave everything to you."

"Don't worry, Marshal, Sun Qing will buy me a drink when the time comes."

Zhang Yan laughed: "Hahaha, there's no need for Sun Qing, someone personally treats you to a drink today."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Yan clapped his hands, and even if there were soldiers behind, they walked forward with wine jars in their hands. Each cavalry soldier had a pottery bowl in his hand, but there was only half a bowl of wine in each bowl.

In this era, wine is a very precious material, because wine is fermented from grain, so it is very precious. After Liu Bei entered Shu, in order to save food, he issued a ban on wine making.

"Brothers, drink up this cup, come back and personally celebrate for you!"

After finishing speaking, Zhang Yan drank it all in one gulp. Seeing this, more than 4,500 cavalry soldiers raised their heads and drank it clean without wasting a single drop.

Wang Dang got on his horse and pointed his sword straight ahead.

"Set off!"