It wasn't until this moment that Tao Qian, Chen Deng, Cao Bao and others understood that Zhang Yan was killing people and establishing authority.

Chen Deng looked at Zhang Yan's eyes with a hint of hope, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but it soon disappeared without a trace.

It was Tao Qian, who would inevitably feel a little sorry when he saw the soldier killed by Zhang Yan. But the matter has come to this point, he has nothing to do, and it will be useless to blame Zhang Yan again, and the dead soldier will not be able to come back to life.

Zhang Yan's face was iron-blue, and his sharp eyes swept over all the Danyang soldiers standing there, and saw that their pants had been taken off in public, so he nodded with satisfaction and said loudly: "Very good." Everyone put their pants up and stood here waiting for my dispatch. ”

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

Zhang Yan turned around and saw a trace of displeasure between Tao Qian's eyebrows, and immediately hugged his fists and said: "Zhang Yan killed a soldier without the permission of Lord Zhou Mu, which is really a heinous crime, and I ask Lord Zhou Mu to punish him severely!" ”

Tao Qian sighed lightly, waved his hand and said: "That's it, Captain Zhang also killed people for the sake of strict army discipline, these people have been following me for too long, it is inevitable that they are a little arrogant, and Captain Zhang will rectify it for me, which is not a crime." Captain Zhang, these soldiers are the strongest in my Xuzhou combat effectiveness, I will hand them all over to you now, I hope you can lead them to successfully complete the task of sneaking up on the Cao army's grain and grass camp. ”

Zhang Yan hugged his fists and said: "My lord, please rest assured, Zhang Yan will do his best to complete this important mission." ”

"Okay, then I'll leave everything to Captain Zhang!" Tao Qian took the initiative to stretch out his hand and grabbed Zhang Yan's hand, grasping it firmly, it can be seen that he has high hopes for Zhang Yan, "In addition, I asked people to arrange practice wine for you, wait a while......"

"My lord, you don't need to drink the practice wine, let's keep it and drink the celebration bar when we come back." Zhang Yan interrupted Tao Qian's words, and said confidently.

"Okay, then stay and wait for your triumph, when the time comes, I will have a feast in the city, and I must celebrate your merits!"

Zhang Yan looked up at the night sky and said to Tao Qian: "My lord, it's not too early, it's already completely dark, I want to start now." ”

Tao Qian saw that Zhang Yan was leaving, so he immediately said: "There is still a long way to go to Pei County, and if you go on foot, it will not only take time, but also be very laborious. I have prepared three thousand horses, one for each of you, and if you set out now, you will arrive at dawn the next day. ”

"The adults are very thoughtful, and the five bodies that I admire will be thrown to the ground." Zhang Yan said politely.

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

"Whoa!"

Cao Bao hugged his fists in response, and then said to Zhang Yan: "Captain Zhang, please come with me with your subordinates!" ”

Zhang Yan nodded, and with an order, the two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Danyang soldiers who stood there motionless followed him towards the stable.

Seeing Zhang Yan leave the Taishou Mansion with the Danyang soldiers, Tao Qian couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, turned his head to Chen Deng beside him and said, "Yuanlong, if Zhang Yan fails, do you have any other 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, and there is plenty of grain and straw in the city, so if you hold on, you can resist Cao's army for a year and a half without any problem. ”

"This matter will be handed over to you, in case Zhang Yan can't succeed, we also have a way back." Tao Qian said.

"Whoa!"

Zhang Yan followed Cao Bao to the stable, and each of the 3,000 people chose a war horse, and asked Cao Bao to call a Danyang soldier again to make up for the shortage of the Danyang soldier he killed.

Then he followed Cao Bao to the granary to get three days of dry food, and then gathered 3,000 Danyang soldiers to the West City Gate.

Zhang Yan went to Taishou Mansion and asked Xuzhou Mu Taoqian to send soldiers to feign an attack on Cao's army camp in order to attract Cao's attention. As long as there is movement of the Xuzhou soldiers at the east gate, then he can lead three thousand Danyang soldiers to sneak out of Pengcheng from the west gate, and then bypass the Cao army's camp and go towards Pei County.

Tao Qian adopted Zhang Yan's suggestion and sent Cao Bao to lead 2,000 soldiers out of the city from the east gate and feint to attack Cao's army camp.

Zhang Yan left the Taishou Mansion with confidence, turned over and jumped on horseback, shouted "driving", and immediately galloped towards the West Gate.

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

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

After about ten minutes, a deafening shout came from the east gate, and Zhang Yan knew that it was Cao Bao who had started to act. However, instead of acting immediately, he waited for a while.

In order to be able to successfully sneak out of the city without being discovered by Cao Jun, Zhang Yan deliberately wrapped the horse's hooves in cloth, so that the sound of the horse's hooves would not be so loud after the run was in contact with the ground.

After about ten minutes, a scout ran over from the east gate, and after seeing Zhang Yan, he directly told Zhang Yan about the situation at the east gate.

After Zhang Yan heard this, his face suddenly burst with joy, and he shouted at the three thousand Danyang soldiers who were waiting for him: "Go!" ”

With 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, and the three thousand Danyang soldiers followed closely behind Zhang Yan, and the group of mermaids went out of the city, and the whole team always maintained a strict formation, and soon sailed into the night.

Zhang Yan took these 3,000 Danyang soldiers, skillfully avoided the camp of Cao's army, ran for about five miles, suddenly changed the direction of travel, and galloped towards Peixian.

At about normal time, Zhang Yan arrived in Pei County with this team and rested in a forest for a while. After running rapidly all night, it can be said that people are sleepy and lacking, not to mention that he doesn't know much about the situation of Cao Jun in Pei County, so Zhang Yan didn't dare to act rashly.

He left the army to rest in the woods, arranged for people to take turns to stand guard, and he himself selected a few more alert soldiers and followed him to the county seat of Peixian where Cao's army was stationed to see the situation.

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

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

In order to be able to see the reality of Peicheng closely, Zhang Yan was determined to take a risk.

He let the five soldiers stay in this wood, put on a white cloak that he had already prepared, lay directly in the snow, and then covered his entire body with a white cloak, and slowly crawled forward, like a snake, approaching Peicheng little by little.

Since he had been a mercenary killer in his previous life, how to survive, lurk and assassinate in the wild has long been a no-brainer for him.

He squirmed cautiously on the snow, and always paid attention to the movement on the tower of Peicheng City, once he found something abnormal, he would lie motionless in the snow.

Zhang Yan crawled forward for a distance of about one or two hundred meters, and his line of sight was just enough to clearly see Cao Bing on Peicheng, he was lying there, motionless, like a hibernating snake, and a pair of hot eyes were closely watching everything on the city tower.

He glanced at the Cao soldiers on the upper floor of Peicheng City, there were indeed only a few of them, and these few people were listless, and some were even napping with spears in their hands.

At this time, the sky was not yet bright, the sky and the earth were gray, Zhang Yan estimated that this time was four or five o'clock in the morning, and he couldn't help but take a nap when he saw these Cao soldiers who were keeping vigil, so the Cao soldiers in Peicheng must have been sleeping.

He thought to himself: "I originally thought that Cao Jun's defense would be very tight, but I didn't expect it to be so lax. The tiger also had a nap, and it seemed that Na Lejin thought that Xuzhou would do his best to deal with the main force of the Cao army, and neglected to take precautions. ”

But for the sake of prudence, Zhang Yan circled around Peicheng and thoroughly touched the situation of Peicheng, and basically concluded that Cao Jun's defense was very lax, and if he took a surprise attack at this time, he would definitely be able to catch Cao Jun off guard.

As soon as he thought of this, a smile appeared on Zhang Yan's face, and he secretly rejoiced in his heart: "God help me!" ”

He immediately returned to the grove and told one of the soldiers to go back and give the order for all the troops to secretly come here, while he and the other four soldiers stayed behind to keep an eye on Peicheng.

After a short time, all the soldiers gathered secretly in the grove.

Zhang Yan selected ten archers who were good at archery, followed him, and quietly approached Peicheng, leaving the rest of the soldiers to wait in the grove.

Zhang Yan took ten archers who were good at archery, each with a layer of white cloth on their bodies, and cautiously crawled forward on the snow, slowly approaching Peicheng.

When everyone climbed to about eighty steps away from Peicheng, Zhang Yan saw that the soldiers on the tower of Peicheng City were still napping, so he ordered the ten archers to shoot at one Cao soldier each, while he took out his bow and arrows, and prepared to take the remaining three Cao soldiers alone.

Eleven people put their arrows on the bowstring one after another, aiming at the Cao soldiers standing guard on the city tower, but when they heard Zhang Yan's soft shout, the eleven arrows flew directly towards the city tower of Peicheng.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"

The arrows pierced the sky and roared towards the Cao soldiers, and the Cao soldiers standing guard fell one by one, all of them pierced through the throat with an arrow.

Zhang Yan shot an arrow, the second arrow, the third arrow followed, when the eleven Cao soldiers were killed, fell to the ground and made a muffled sound, the other two Cao soldiers were immediately awakened, seeing the Cao soldiers lying in a pool of blood, both of them were surprised, just wanted to shout, two cold rays shot directly through their throats, so that they could not shout, fell to the ground, and died in the struggle.

After the soldiers standing guard on the city tower were solved, under Zhang Yan's order, eleven people immediately rushed towards Peicheng quickly, and in a short time, they arrived at the root of the city wall, and they all took out the haode flying hooks that had been prepared for a long time, and threw them to the city tower.

The flying hook was thrown up the city tower, hooking an edge of the city wall, Zhang Yan and the others pulled the rope tied to the flying hook with their hands, and after confirming that it was enough to bear their weight, they began to pull the rope with both hands, pedaled the city wall with both feet, and began to climb.