Zhang Yan saw that the person standing in front of him was quite angry, although his injuries had not healed, but he thought that it was more than enough to deal with these anti-thieves, so he rode forward, took out the long sword he was wearing in his waist, held it tightly in his right hand, and shouted at the person opposite: "What a big breath, I want to see how capable you group of anti-thieves can be!" Do you dare to fight me alone? ”

"Why don't you dare!" Zhou Tai immediately shot and said energetically.

Zhang Yan sneered, and suddenly rode out of the horse, and the dark cloud snow horse under the seat carried Zhang Yan, like an arrow off the string, flying towards Zhou Tai on the opposite side.

In a moment, Zhang Yan was already in front of Zhou Tai, he grabbed the reins of the horse with his left hand, and slashed at Zhou Tai with a swing of his long sword with his right hand.

Zhou Tai raised the iron spear unhurriedly to block, who knew that Zhang Yan's long sword suddenly disappeared, and it actually stabbed diagonally from his side.

Zhou Tai was taken aback, he never expected that Zhang Yan would make such a trick, he hurriedly turned the spear and crossed his waist, but when he heard the sound of "Zheng", he blocked Zhang Yan's sword.

The two war horses were fleeting, and the two quickly separated, and in just one round, Zhang Yan left a deep impression on Zhou Tai.

Zhou Tai grabbed the horse, turned the horse's head, and said secretly in his heart: "I underestimated the enemy just now, and I was almost stabbed by him." This time, I'm not going to show mercy! ”

Zhang Yan also reined in the horse, turned the horse's head, and hedged against Zhou Tai again.

Zhou Tai's weapons are long, the attack range is wide, and the attack distance is also long, which is extremely advantageous in horse warfare.

Although Zhang Yan said that he held a long sword in his hand and his weapon was much shorter than a spear, Zhang Yan could skillfully use a long sword and be able to strike at a later time. As long as he reaches the attack range of the long sword, it is Zhang Yan's world, and he will definitely not give Zhou Tai any chance to fight back.

In fact, Zhang Yan used a sword to fight, but he was also forced to be helpless, because his left shoulder blade was injured, if he used a spear, he had to use his left hand, once he used force, it would pull the wound, causing the wound to burst, thus causing a second injury.

For the sake of safety, Zhang Yan could only choose a long sword.

The two horses intersected, and Zhou Tai raised his spear and launched an attack, and the shadow of the spear was sufficient, and he stabbed at Zhang Yan's vital point one after another.

Zhang Yan swung his long sword, blocked left and right, and defused Zhou Tai's attack in a hurry, seeing that he was about to stagger, Zhang Yan's wrist shook, and the sword pointed directly at Zhou Tai's back.

Zhou Tai was shocked into a cold sweat, he didn't expect that Zhang Yan still had the strength to launch an attack after resisting his attack, and hurriedly lowered himself to avoid it, but he still felt a little palpitating when he thought about it.

In just two rounds, Zhou Tai could already determine that the person fighting against him was strong, but he was afraid that he was not under him.

Zhou Tai regained his spirit, and rode out again, this time, he took a strong attack, and relied on superb marksmanship, without giving Zhang Yan any chance to counterattack, one move, the next move is like a shadow, and the moves are enough to kill the killer.

Zhang Yan suddenly felt an unprecedented killing intent, seeing Zhou Tai's hideous face, his fierce appearance was revealed, and the speed of his marksmanship was beyond his imagination.

In previous engagements, he had never seen such a fast marksmanship. And the iron spear is in Zhou Tai's hands, like a fierce tiger, as long as he doesn't pay attention to it, he will be bitten by this tiger, and his life will be in danger.

The two fought fiercely for more than a dozen rounds, and they didn't know whether they won or lost, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that Zhang Yan had been completely suppressed by Zhou Tai, and the long sword only blocked, but did not attack, and completely fell behind.

Gradually, Zhang Yan also felt the difficulty, the blade of the long sword had already been pitted because of the collision with the iron spear, Zhang Yan couldn't help but look at this person who was fighting against him.

After a few more rounds of fighting, Zhang Yan was already out of breath and sweating, while Zhou Tai was calm and breathing smoothly.

However, in comparison, the war horse under Zhou Tai's seat was panting heavily, and he was already exhausted, and he couldn't even stand steadily.

In desperation, Zhou Tai had no choice but to ask for a temporary truce, and he wanted to change horses and fight again!

Zhang Yan agreed to Zhou Tai's request, and asked loudly: "Dare to ask Your Excellency's name?" ”

"The eldest husband will not change his name, sit or change his surname, I am Zhou Tai!"

When Zhang Yan heard this name, his face was full of joy, he didn't expect the famous Zhou Tai to appear here, no wonder he would be forced to be unable to backhand.

He saw that Zhou Tai had changed his war horse and was going to fight again, so he said: "Rest for the time being today, and fight again tomorrow!" ”

Zhou Tai was not worried, and immediately agreed, so he collected his troops and returned to the city.

And Zhang Yan retreated three miles, stationed outside the city, and sent scouts to inquire about the news, and it was necessary to find out the relationship between Zhou Tai and Li Lun.

Li Lun on the city wall was full of joy when he saw that Zhou Tai had resisted the official army, and immediately set up a banquet in the city to entertain Zhou Tai and others.

After nightfall, the scouts sent by Zhang Yan finally returned, only to learn that Zhou Tai was the leader of the pirates, and there was also an accomplice, called Jiang Qin, the two were originally river thieves in the Jianghuai area, and then Yuan Shu drove them out of Huainan and lived here, colluding with Li Lun to plunder merchant ships, and Li Lun was just a simple cooperative relationship.

In addition, the scouts also inquired that there were more than 2,000 pirates led by Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, and many of them were dragging their families with their families, a total of more than 10,000 people, all of whom were stationed on Yuzhou Mountain.

After Zhang Yan learned these news, he regretted that he did not lead the army to come, and at this time, Mi Qiang brought a thousand soldiers and horses, Zhang Yan was overjoyed when he learned about it, and immediately joined forces with Mi Qiang, and Jihua attacked the city late at night.

Mi Qiang knew Qu County well, and pointed out a secret way for Zhang Yan, so that he could occupy the county seat of Qu County without much effort.

The county seat of Qu County is built on the mountain, the south is close to the mountains, the north is the sea, the mountains in the south overlap, the sea area in the north is vast and unfathomable, and it is an insurmountable natural barrier.

But it doesn't mean that there is no breakthrough in the county seat of Qu County, it's just that this breakthrough is only known to the Mi family.

According to Mi Qiang, in the mountain, there is a secret passage, which was built by the ancestors of the Mi family in order to avoid the scourge of war, and the secret passage can lead directly from the mountain to the old house of the Mi family in the county seat of Qu County.

Zhang Yan ordered all the soldiers and horses, let Mi Qiang lead the way, and led 1,300 people to sneak into Qishan one after another.

Under the leadership of Mi Qiang, Zhang Yan and others entered the secret passage, which was dug by hand, and the entrance to the cave was narrow, and only two people and a horse could pass side by side, but the deeper they went, the bigger the cave became.

Zhang Yan asked people to hold torches, and the lights in the secret passage were also brightly lit, and it was vaguely visible that there were people living in the secret passage.

Listening to Mi Qiang, the last time the secret passage was activated was during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, when the Mi family transferred all their belongings to the secret passage in order to avoid the scourge of war, and people also lived here, eating and drinking without worry, and lived for more than half a year. At that time, the entire Qu County thought that the Mi family was missing, but who knew that it would miraculously appear half a year later, and the people of Qu County have not yet solved such a mystery.

Zhang Yan and others followed Mi Qiang, and after a lot of effort, they finally arrived at the Mi family's old house. The old house of the Mi family is in the south of the county seat of Quxian County, built against the mountains, and because of this, when the secret passage is built, people from the outside world do not know anything.

Although Mi Zhu moved to Tancheng with his family, he still left people to guard the old mansion, because the old mansion was not abandoned.

However, the old mansion is indeed a little old, and it is much smaller than the Mifu in Tancheng.

Zhang Yan and others walked out of the secret passage one after another, and secretly entered the county seat of Quxian County, at this time in the dead of night, Li Lun, Zhou Tai and others were already drunk, and they were completely unaware of the arrival of the official army.

Under the leadership of Mi Qiang, the army came to Li Lun's mansion, and Zhang Yan immediately ordered to surround Li Mansion, and he took five hundred soldiers into the mansion to arrest Li Lun and Zhou Tai.

The officers and soldiers were like falling from the sky, and as soon as they entered the Li Mansion, they went on a rampage, but anyone who resisted Yujian was killed.

For a while, the Li Mansion shouted and killed, and the noisy sound woke up Li Lun and Zhou Tai.

Li Lun was holding a concubine in his arms, and when he heard the noise outside, he learned that it was the official army who had killed him, and his face was as frightened as earth, so he grabbed his clothes and put them on his body, and in a panic, he actually wore the wrong clothes and put the concubine's nightdress on his body. At this moment, where can he take care of so much, it is important to escape.

However, as soon as he opened the door, he saw Zhang Yan leading people to block the door, and he was immediately surprised, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

"At this time, you know to beg for mercy? Why did you go earlier? I will also let you die clearly, let you know whose hands you died in, I am Xuzhou Mu! Zhang Yan said.

After Li Lun heard this, he was even more frightened, and hurriedly begged for mercy.

But how could Zhang Yan show mercy to the rebels, waved his long sword, cut off Li Lun's head with a sword, and walked out of the room with Li Lun's head, and then led people to arrest Zhou Tai.

Zhou Tai lived in the guest room, some distance from Li Lun's residence, he woke up from a dream, heard someone shouting that the official army was coming, although he didn't know how the official army entered the city, but he still reflexively jumped up from the bed, touched the saber placed on the side of the bed, and walked out of the room directly.

He bumped into several officers and soldiers one after another along the way, but they were all killed by him, escaped through the back door, went to the barracks to find his old department, and fled with them out of the county seat of Quxian County.

Zhang Yan failed to catch Zhou Tai, although it was a little regrettable, but he occupied the county seat of Quxian County, and immediately asked people to arrest all Li Lun's family, behead them on the spot, and confiscate all Li Lun's family property.

In just one hour, Zhang Yan controlled the whole situation, and those who rebelled with Li Lun came to express their guilt to Zhang Yan, and shifted all the blame to Li Lun.

Although Zhang Yan knew that some of these words were false, the law did not blame the public, he couldn't behead all these people, right? Besides, the first evil Li Lun has been eliminated, these jumping clowns are not to worry, Zhang Yan fined them some gold and silver, and this is the end of the matter.

After dawn, Zhang Yan had already taken control of the county seat of Quxian County, and hung Li Lun's head on the city gate, and then asked people to pass on the order, whoever dared to openly rebel would end up a hundred times worse than Li Lun.

Li Lun's death was enough to deter those rebellious salt merchants, and the salt farmers were also bewitched, and order was restored in the entire Qu County in just one day.

However, in Zhang Yan's heart, he was thinking about another thing, that is, the pirates Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin stationed in Yuzhou Mountain. After some careful planning, Zhang Yan first sent someone to send a letter of persuasion to surrender, and then gathered soldiers and horses, ready at any time, ready to attack Yuzhou Mountain at any time.