Zhang Yan led 3,000 elite cavalry to pursue all the way, encountering a lot of trouble along the way, Xun Chen seemed to know that Zhang Yan was going to lead his troops to pursue, so he set up a suspicious formation, and every time he came to a fork in the road, it would always make Zhang Yan spend a long time looking for them.

It wasn't until the evening that Zhang Yan pursued for fifty miles, not to mention the time and effort, and gradually lost the news of Xun Chen's army, so he had to send scouts to investigate everywhere, while Zhang Yan stayed in place to rest first.

"Regent, if you continue to search like this, I don't know when you will find it." Jia Xu sat beside Zhang Yan and expressed his opinion on the army looking for Xun Chen.

Zhang Yan said: "Does the military advisor have any other ideas?" ”

Jia Xu thought for a while and said slowly: "Xun Chen is leading the army to support Jinyang, since their destination is Jinyang, then this is easy to do." Now we don't have to pay attention to where they are, the regent only needs to lead the army directly in the direction of Jinyang. Xun Chen's army has few cavalry and many infantry, and it is forced to march at most sixty to one hundred miles a day, but our army is all cavalry, and the movement speed is more than twice that of them, and it is definitely not a problem to run 300 miles a day. Therefore, the subordinates thought that as long as our army moved to the front of them first, and then set up an ambush on the road to Jinyang, they would not be able to wait for Xun Chen's army. ”

After Zhang Yan heard this, Haha smiled and said: "The military advisor's clever plan, why didn't I think of this?" In this way, we can wait for work and kill Xun Chen by surprise! I'll give the order......"

"Lord Regent, please wait!"

"What, is there anything else wrong?"

Jia Xu said: "There is nothing wrong, it's just." If a few cavalry can be dispatched, they will still pursue behind Xun Chen. Keep them still in high tension. If they don't guess that we will rush to the front of them to ambush them in advance, perhaps this strategy will be more effective than just going to them in front of them. ”

Zhang Yan pondered for a while, and felt that what Jia Xu said was very reasonable, so he immediately called Lu Meng, gave him 300 cavalry, and asked him to lead these 300 cavalry to scatter around, creating a momentum that has been tracking Xun Chen's army.

Lu Meng received the order and rested for a while. Zhang Yan led Zhang Liao, Xu Chu, Gan Ning, Jia Xu and others, as well as 2,700 elite cavalry, and quickly left here and went directly to Jinyang.

If you want to enter Bingzhou from Jizhou, you must go to Jingcheng Pass, and Jingcheng Pass is also a place where soldiers must fight, Zhang Yan and Jia Xu discussed, and decided to set up an ambush in Jingcheng Pass, snipe Xun Chen and others, and then lead the army to enter Bingzhou from this road. The soldiers approached the city of Jinyang, thus completely destroying Cao Cao in one fell swoop.

Zhang Yan led the army to Jingcheng Pass in the starry night. Galloping all the way, without sleep, he drove more than 200 miles in a row, and finally arrived in Jingcheng County at 10 minutes the next day.

Zhang Yan did not rest, led the army to directly attack the county seat of Jingcheng, there were a small number of Cao soldiers in the county, the Han army suddenly arrived, these Cao soldiers and the people in the city were unexpected, Zhang Yan and others directly rushed into the city, a burst of killing, Cao soldiers could not resist, one after another, they retreated.

But Zhang Yan had already taken precautions, so Zhang Liao, Xu Chu, Gan Ning and others blocked the rest of the city gates, and wiped out the Cao army in the city.

Cao Jun was all killed, but Zhang Yan did not commit any crime with the people, and at this time, the county commander of Jingcheng County immediately led the county officials to surrender.

Zhang Yan then inquired about the county order, and then learned that there were not many defenders on the Jingcheng Pass, and the general guarding the pass was the son of the county order.

So, Zhang Yan asked the county commander to write a letter to his son, asking him to lead the crowd to surrender. The county commander was submissive, and immediately wrote a letter and sent someone to Jingcheng Pass to hand it over to his son.

After receiving the letter, the son of the county commander immediately led his troops to withdraw from Jingcheng Pass and came to the county seat to surrender.

Zhang Yan effortlessly took Jingcheng Pass and occupied the county seat of Jingcheng, but still let the father and son of the county commander of Jingcheng County take the original position, but the soldiers stationed in Jingcheng Pass were replaced, and Zhang Liao led 500 soldiers to guard the pass, and he led the rest to stay in the county seat.

In addition, Zhang Yan also sent scouts to inquire about the news. Although Zhang Yan occupied Jingcheng County, he still hung Cao Cao's banner as a confusing purpose.

A day later, the scouts came with the news that Xun Chen led the army to Yuanshi County, which was not far from here, and it was estimated that it would arrive tomorrow.

Zhang Yan then sent an order to everyone to get ready, and even gave great preferential treatment to the father and son of the county commander of Jingcheng County, if they could help him completely defeat Xun Chen's army, after the matter was completed, he would be added to the rank of knight.

This is undoubtedly a very haode temptation for the father and son of the county order, the two of them didn't think about it, they immediately agreed, and Zhang Yan asked them to do whatever they wanted.

At the same time, Lü Meng and Gao Shun joined forces, and the army followed Xun Chen's army all the way, but always maintained a distance of fifty miles, neither too close nor too far away.

In the evening of the next day, Xun Chen led the army to arrive in Jingcheng County, and sent people to inform the county order in advance, so that they could prepare a meal and prepare a full meal.

So, the county order was in accordance with Zhang Yan's instructions, secretly put sweat medicine in the meal, and when Xun Chen and others led the army to arrive in Jingcheng County, it was already twilight, this group of people after a long journey, was tired and hungry, the county order let people serve meals, one by one, Xun Chen and this group of soldiers devoured the prepared meals.

After eating and drinking, Xun Chen stood up and was about to leave, but suddenly found that his head was dizzy, only to see the county order's face with a dark smile, Zhang Yan didn't know when he appeared behind the county order, and was looking at him with a faint smile.

Xun Chen looked around, saw that the people around him were dizzy, and soon fell asleep, only then did he realize that he was in Zhang Yan's way, pointed to the county order and said weakly: "You ...... You're ......"

Before he finished speaking, Xun Chen's body went soft, and he fell directly to the ground, unconscious.

Xun Chen slept until the afternoon of the next day, and then gradually woke up, when he opened his eyes, his head still had a faint pain, but he found that he was locked in a cell, and there was a person named Wang Lun lying beside him.

He reluctantly sat up, looked around, and found that there was no one else in the cell except for the two of them, and Wang Lun was still asleep.

It's not that the county order is a little fierce under the sweat medicine, but the result of Xun Chen's overwork, walking all the way from Handan City to here, for him who is not physically strong, it is simply a miracle.

At this time, the door of the cell opened from the outside, and a jailer saw Xun Chen wake up, he was stunned for a moment, then turned around and walked out.

Almost after a stick of incense, the door of the cell was pushed open again, and in the dim light, Xun Chen could vaguely see the appearance of the person who walked in from the outside.

His cold countenance, deep eyes, and sturdy physique, the most striking thing is that he is wearing a piece of gold armor, which is enough to prove his identity.

Who else could there be besides the regent Zhang Yan?

Zhang Yan was alone, after entering the cell, he glanced at Xun Chen, and then at Wang Lun, who was still asleep, and without saying anything, he stood quietly outside the cell, staring at Xun Chen tightly with a pair of eyes like torches.

Xun Chen was uncomfortable by Zhang Yan, and was about to speak, but Zhang Yan suddenly turned around and left, and walked to the door of the cell without looking back, without saying a word, and he didn't know what it meant.

Xun Chen couldn't bear the loneliness anymore, and finally said, "Hey! What do you mean? How long are you going to keep me? Since I have been captured by you, I want to kill or chop, listen to me! ”

Zhang Yan stopped, turned his head to look at Xun Chen, and said softly, "Do you want to die?" I won't let you die! You set up an ambush plan and almost killed me, and it was too cheap to kill you with one sword. ”

After saying that, Zhang Yan turned around and went out, the door of the cell slammed shut, everything in the cell returned to calm, as if nothing had happened, and darkness gradually invaded the entire cell.

After Zhang Yan returned to the county hall from the cell, he said to the county order: "Without my order, no one can open the cell, deliver food to the prisoners in the cell on time, just keep him locked up, don't believe what he says, wait until I capture Cao Cao, and then come back to clean him up!" ”

"Whoa!" The county order didn't dare to provoke Zhang Yan, so he could only obey his orders, and the county order also seemed to see a situation, the Cao family was no longer good, and he had to find a backer as soon as possible.

Undoubtedly, the regent Zhang Yan is the biggest backer, follow him, and eat and drink spicy food in the future.

After Zhang Yan finished his confession, he rode a fast horse and left the county office, and then handed it over to the county commander, and promised to promote the county magistrate to the Taishou of Changshan County after the matter was completed.

The county order got the benefits, so he naturally worked hard for Zhang Yan and personally let his son take care of the cell, for fear of a little mistake.

Zhang Yan rode on his war horse and galloped to the outside of Jingcheng County, Xu Chu, Gan Ning, Jia Xu and others had already assembled the cavalry and waited there, while Gao Shun and Lu Meng led the army and escorted more than 10,000 Cao soldiers who surrendered, and they had already opened in advance and went towards Jinyang through Jingcheng Pass.

"Let's go!"

Zhang Yan gave an order, and left Jingcheng County with his cavalry, heading towards Taiyuan County.

……

And the state, Taiyuan County, Jinyang City.

Cao Cao led 3,000 cavalry, including Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Xu You, and finally arrived at the foot of Jinyang City after a long journey of several days and nights.

At this time, the banner of the word "Cao" is still fluttering on the city of Jinyang, but the city gate is closed, and there are many more soldiers on the city tower, those soldiers are wandering around the city wall, back and forth, it seems that the defense is very tight, but in fact it is just pretending, showing it to the enemy, so that the enemy knows that there are still many large armies in Jinyang City.

According to the information found by the scouts, Wang Ling sent troops to fortify layers of troops on the road from Shangdang to Jinyang, just to hold back the army of Tai Shici and Xu Huang, and to create more time for Cao Cao to lead troops to help.

Cao Cao led the cavalry to the city of Jinyang, and immediately shouted to the city tower: "Open the city gate quickly!" (To be continued......)