Zhang Yan and Chen Qun returned to the State Pastoral Mansion together, and along the way, Chen Qun also told Zhang Yan the ins and outs of the matter.

It turned out that in the past few months, Jizhou Mu Yuan Shao has not been idle, in order to recapture the Nanpi occupied by Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao personally led a large army to the city of Nanpi, after a fierce battle with Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao finally conquered Nanpi, reoccupied Bohai County, and Gongsun Chan was under the protection of Zhao Yun and others, and fled back to Youzhou in embarrassment.

Yuan Shao then appointed his eldest son Yuan Tan as the assassin of Qingzhou, led the army of victory to take Qingzhou, and let Xu You and Guo Tu serve as Yuan Tan's military advisors, and sent Yan Liang, Zhang He, Han Meng and other generals to lead an army of 30,000 and go all the way to Qingzhou.

Gongsun Zhan's Qingzhou Assassin Shi Tian Kaitun soldiers were in Linzi, and when they heard that Yuan Tan was leading an army to attack, he led 20,000 soldiers and horses out of the city to meet him, wanting to ambush Yuan Tan.

Liu Bei, who was attached to Tian Kai, heard the news, and advised Tian Kai not to go out of the city to fight, but to stick to the city, but Tian Kai did not listen and insisted on leading troops to ambush Yuan Tan.

As a result, Tian Kai and Le'an failed to ambush Yuan Tan, but were surrounded by Yuan Tan and killed by Yan Liang, the general of the Yuan army, and most of the rest of the troops surrendered to the Yuan army.

Liu Bei learned that Tian Kai's soldiers and horses, Yuan Tan came to Linzi, and he didn't dare to stay long, so he fled east with the old department and went to seek refuge with Kong Rong, the prime minister of Beihai State.

Who knows, Yuan Tan occupied Linzi and came to attack Beihai again, Kong Rong insisted on not fighting, and was forced to have no choice but to let Liu Bei's brother Zhang Fei break out of the encirclement and go to Xuzhou for help.

In the hall of the state pastor's mansion, Zhang Fei was pacing anxiously, anxious.

Zhang Yan walked in from outside the hall, and when he saw Zhang Fei, he hurriedly bowed his hand and said, "Brother Zhang, don't come unharmed?" ”

When Zhang Fei saw Zhang Yan coming, he first bowed, and hurriedly said: "Lord Jun, I came this time to ask for something important, I am here on behalf of Beihai Xiang Kong Rong, this is a letter from Lord Kong, please make Lord Jun take a look!" ”

Zhang Yan took a letter from Zhang Fei's hand, and after reading it hurriedly, he said: "When Xuzhou was in danger, Kong Beihai worked tirelessly to come to the rescue, and now Kong Beihai is in trouble, how can I see death without help?" Brother Zhang, you have worked hard all the way, and you are resting here, I will let people order the soldiers and horses, and send troops to rescue Beihai in a while. ”

Zhang Feixi smiled, hugged his fists and said: "Zhang Envoy Jun is willing to send troops to rescue, it's really good, I'm here for Kong Beihai xiexie Zhang Envoy Jun!" ”

Zhang Yan asked Chen Qun to send Zhang Fei down to rest first, and then asked people to order soldiers and horses, prepare grain, grass, and baggage, and asked Zhang Hong to inform Zhang Hong and let Zhang Hong go with him on the expedition.

After Zhang Hong learned the news, he immediately straightened out and waited for Zhang Yan's order at any time.

An hour later, after the allocation of grain, grass and baggage, Zhang Yan took the iron cavalry, the second battalion of iron armor soldiers and horses, and Zhang Hong as the military division, set off from Pengcheng and went to Qingzhou.

Zhang Fei saw that Zhang Yan only brought 8,000 soldiers and horses, his brows furrowed, and he rode his horse in front of Zhang Yan and asked: "Zhang Yuanjun, Yuan's army has 30,000 people, and all of them are excellent, but the envoy only brought 8,000 soldiers, is it a little too little?" ”

Zhang Yan smiled: "It's not much, it's fine." These 8,000 cavalry are the elite of my personal training, and it is also the elite of the entire Xuzhou soldiers, and I will take this elite army to support, and I will definitely be able to give Yuan Jun a dismount! ”

Zhang Fei was skeptical, and it was inconvenient to say anything more, but in his heart, he still felt that the number of people was too small.

During the march, none of the 8,000 soldiers wore armor-piercing armor, and all of them had their armor on the baggage carts, pulled by mules. In this way, the burden of the soldiers can be reduced, so that the soldiers can walk many more miles every day when they are marching.

However, this is still a little slow for the anxious Zhang Fei. In the end, Zhang Fei couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to leave Zhang Yan's army first and go back to send a poster letter to Kongbei.

After Zhang Fei left, Zhang Yan took this newly trained guard army, accelerated the speed of the march, and went to Qingzhou with a forced march.

Two days later, Zhang Yan's army successfully came to the junction of Langya and Beihai Kingdom, and met Sun Qian, who was rehousing refugees in Langya Kingdom.

Before entering the Beihai country, he met thousands of refugees from Qingzhou, Zhang Yan asked about the situation in Beihai by the way, and only then did he know that the county where the Beihai minister was located had been broken by the Yuan army, and Kong Rong led the remnants of the army to flee to Zhuxu County under the protection of Liu Bei and Guan Yu.

Zhang Yan instructed Sun Qian to settle the refugees, and he continued to lead the army to Beihai.

On the eighth day of the seventh month, in the evening, the city wall of Zhuxu County, Beihai Kingdom, had already been stained red with blood, forming a perfect unity with the fiery red clouds in the western sky.

On the city wall, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei were desperately resisting, but the soldiers of the Yuan army were bravely attacking the city, the ladder knocked down one, and the other was erected again, and the Yuan soldiers continued to climb the city wall.

Beihai Xiang Kong Rong risked the arrow stone and went to the city to command, but was shot in the left arm by a stray arrow, and now he is wrapped in bandages, under the protection of his own soldiers, standing on the city tower to command the battle.

"Yuan Bing came up from that side, quickly repel them!" Kong Rong shouted at a group of soldiers who had just climbed the city wall from inside the city.

As the minister of the Beihai Sea, Kong Rong has always loved the people like a son, governed well, and won the love of the people of Qingzhou. So, wherever he went, there would be people who volunteered to serve him.

When Kong Rong learned that Yuan Tan was coming to attack Beihai, he recruited soldiers, and overnight, he had more than 10,000 soldiers. However, the soldiers he recruited were not rigorously trained, and were simply a rabble, and when attacked, they were immediately defeated.

It is precisely because of this that Juxian was easily broken by Yuan Tan, if it weren't for the protection of Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others, I am afraid that he would have been caught by Yuan Tan.

And now, it is Liu Bei's subordinates who are guarding Zhu Xucheng, and the soldiers he recruits can only be strong.

Yuan soldiers continued to climb the city wall, although Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei resisted desperately, but after all, they were outnumbered, and there were more and more Yuan soldiers on the city wall.

As soon as a group of Yuan soldiers climbed the city wall, they went directly to the direction where Kong Rong was, and killed the soldiers who protected Kong Rong with a knife, and then arrested Kong Rong.

"Let go of me! Let me go! Kong Rong was suddenly held by Yuan Bing, and immediately shouted loudly, "Xuande save me!" Xuande save me! ”

Liu Bei is now also unable to protect himself, surrounded by Yuan soldiers, he kept waving the double swords in his hands, killing one Yuan soldier after another, but he didn't know Weishenme, he always felt that this Yuan soldier couldn't kill it.

When he heard Kong Rong's shout, he immediately looked back, but when he saw a few Yuan soldiers insisting on Kong Rong walking towards the bottom of the city tower, he immediately shouted to Guan Yu: "Yun Chang! Save Kong Beihai! ”

Guan Yu was holding the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, and he was slashing Yuan Bing, he was strong in martial arts, and it was a piece of cake to deal with these shrimp soldiers and crab generals. After he heard Liu Bei's shout, he immediately shook his spirits, and without saying a word, he raised the Qinglong Yanyue Knife and threw it at the Yuan soldiers who were clinging to Kong Rong.

At the same time, he instantly drew the sword in his waist, the long sword flew, the sword light flashed, as fast as a lightning, his body was even more like a star to the staircase of the city tower, the green dragon glaive pierced the body of the two Yuan soldiers, and the long sword in his hand also killed the two Yuan soldiers, and in just a moment, Kong Rong was saved.

"Second brother is doing well!" When Zhang Fei saw such a scene, he shouted loudly.

"Third brother, Xuzhou Mu Zhang Yan, will you really come?" Guan Yu asked.

"Second brother, don't worry, Zhang Yuanjun's soldiers and horses are on the way, and they should be about to arrive." Zhang Fei shouted.

Kong Rong said in shock: "Zhang Yuanjun will definitely come, and the soldiers will insist on ......."

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Boom ......"

Suddenly, a series of muffled voices came from behind Yuan Jun, and on the western horizon, under the light of the setting sun, a group of cavalry flashing rainbow lights drove into everyone's sight.

This group of cavalry was fully armed from head to toe, and even the war horses under the seat were covered with a thick layer of armor, and they were galloping towards Yuan's army with a strong and heroic attitude.

In addition, two groups of equally heavily armed infantry, armed with steel spears, came out from the left and right flanks of the Yuan army, although the movement was slightly slow, but the pace and formation of the army always remained rigorously consistent, and the pace of the entire army was the same, and every time they took a step forward, there would be a muffled sound of "boom" at the same time, making the earth tremble.

The three troops all played a unified banner, and the four big characters of "Xuzhou Muzhang" came into everyone's eyes.

When Zhang Fei saw these three troops appear, his heart suddenly burst into joy, and he shouted loudly: "Reinforcements are coming, reinforcements are coming!" Brothers, reinforcements are coming, let's drive Yuan Gou out of the city together! ”

With Zhang Fei's shout, the morale of the soldiers on the walls of the entire Zhuxu City was high, and they all shook their spirits and killed Yuan Bing desperately.

The Yuan soldiers outside the city saw that the reinforcements were coming, so they divided their troops to block, but in the face of these soldiers hiding in the iron armor, the Yuan soldiers looked a little helpless, and their arrows could not penetrate the enemy's armor.

Clusters of arrows were shot out one after another, but unfortunately, these ironclad troops had no casualties, and they were getting closer and closer to Yuan's soldiers.

"Boom!"

Under the leadership of Zhang Yan, the ironclad cavalry directly rushed into the camp of the Yuan army, and those Yuan soldiers were knocked into the scattered everywhere, and the ironclad infantry also followed closely behind, launching an attack from the two flanks of the Yuan army.

Only then did Yuan Jun realize that not only could their arrows not penetrate them, but even their spears could not pierce them, and their swords were even more futile.

For a while, the soldiers of Yuan Jun were surprised, and they only had to be slaughtered.

Yuan Jun fell into the three-sided attack of the Ironclad Army, and it was Yuan Tan who was responsible for commanding the battle, and when he saw that his soldiers could not help these sudden Ironclad Troops, he immediately ordered a retreat, so as not to be surrounded by the Ironclad Army, and he would not be able to leave when he wanted to.

Yuan Jun Mingjin withdrew his troops, and those who had just climbed the city wall were miserable, and only death awaited them.