Zhang Yan couldn't pay attention, and her heart was very chaotic.

If he resists, with his army, he is definitely not the opponent of the regent Zhang Yan, and it is very likely that his own and his brothers' lives will be put into it.

Zhang Yan has never been a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, but at this moment, he has a lot of considerations, if he dies, where will these brothers who follow him go, and where will the people who depend on him go?

The reason why his Montenegrin army has been able to exist in this land for a long time is because of the troubled times and his strategy of being left and right.

At the beginning of the troubled times, the heroes rose together, in order to seize the territory, Zhang Yan also wanted to seize the state and county in the past, and Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, Zhang Yang, Wang Kuang, Gongsun Zhan, Liu Yu and others have intersected.

Nowadays, there are not many heroes left in the world, and Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan, who are adjacent to him, are a hundred times stronger than him, a thousand times, and his left and right skills can no longer play a big role.

If you take refuge in one side, you will inevitably provoke the other side.

It's just strange that Zhang Yan made the wrong bet on Yuan Shao at the beginning, so that now he has fallen into such a dilemma.

It will definitely not be able to defeat Zhang Yan's army, but if he surrenders, will Zhang Yan still accept himself? After all, he once betrayed Zhang Yan, and he was afraid that if he surrendered, he would also die.

When Zhang Yan was in a dilemma, his son Zhang Fang walked in with his henchmen Sun Qing, Zheng Gu and others.

"Daddy, the boy heard. The regent Zhang Yanqin led a large army to the expedition. It's already close to Asaka Prefecture......"

Zhang Yan took a look at Zhang Fang, Sun Qing, and Zheng Gu. Said slowly: "You all already know? ”

Zhang Fang, Sun Qing, and Yang Gu all nodded, and Zhang Fang said: "Not only do we know, but the whole cottage already knows the news." ”

Zhang Yan asked, "What is the reaction of all the brothers in the cottage?" ”

Zhang Fang, Sun Qing, and Yu Gu looked at each other, but they didn't speak, but their faces were very heavy.

Seeing the expressions on the faces of the three people, Zhang Yan sighed heavily and said, "Even if you don't say it, I know." Now there must be rumors in the cottage, and people are panicking, right? ”

Zhang Fangdao: "Daddy, Zhang Yan has just defeated Yuan Shao, so he led a large army to come to conquer, and the whole village is naturally frightened. However, Daddy doesn't have to worry, we have been in Montenegro for many years and are very familiar with the terrain here, although Zhang Yan's army is powerful, but it is on flat ground. It's mountainous and the roads are rough. It is not conducive to the advance of the army, as long as we hold the various main roads into the mountain, we will definitely be able to block Zhang Yan. ”

Sun said lightly: "Big brother, what Fang Er said is very reasonable, there are tens of thousands of brothers in our village, which is enough to fight with Zhang Yan!" ”

After hearing this, Zhang Yan sneered and said, "Even if you can block Zhang Yan from entering the mountain, what can you do?" Zhang Yan won more with less, not only defeated Yuan Shao, but also killed Yuan Shao, even the 350,000 army of Yuan's army couldn't help Zhang Yan, we only had tens of thousands of people, how could we be Zhang Yan's opponent? Besides, you should know better than me that although there are tens of thousands of brothers in our village, there are less than 1,000 people who can really recruit and fight habitually. ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Fang and Sun Qing stopped speaking, but frowned. In fact, they also know the current situation in the village, since they belonged to Zhang Yan, Zhang Yan handed over all the two counties of Chaoge and Dangyin to Zhang Yan to manage, allowing the people to naturalize on the spot, and the hundreds of thousands of people who followed them before basically went down the mountain to enter the household registration of Chaoge and Dangyin counties, and have become local people, cultivating fields, marrying wives and children, and living a happy life.

And the people in the cottage have also had wives and children, and a few years of peaceful life have eliminated their thief nature, although they are still staying in the cottage, but they are reclaiming wasteland around the cottage and planting grain, and they are no longer the famous Montenegrin Army in the past.

Zhang Yan continued: "The regent came this time, nothing more than to ask the master for the crime, we betrayed him, secretly defected to Yuan Shao, and let Cao Cao's army enter the customs, all the blame is mine alone, I am ready to go to see the regent, take the guilt of Jing, and exchange my life for the peace of Montenegro." ”

"Daddy, you can't go, if you go, you're dead. Why don't we run away......"

"Run? Where can we escape? ”

"Flee to Jizhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Liangzhou, anywhere, this is not Zhang Yan's territory, even if Zhang Yan wants to catch his father, he can't catch it!"

Zhang Yan sneered and said slowly: "The world is so big, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister." Zhang Yan coerced the Son of Heaven to order the world, and this time he defeated Yuan Shao with less, the position of the overlord of the Central Plains, I am afraid that others will be difficult to shake. Even if we escape, can we escape for a lifetime? Hiding and hiding, timidity, is not my style of acting, rather than a down-and-out guest to die in a foreign country, it is better to die under Zhang Yan's knife in a beautiful manner, at least, I will not come to the world in vain. ”

"But Daddy ......"

Sun Qing hurriedly grabbed Zhang Fang and said, "Big brother's character, you don't know it, you can't change the things he recognizes." ”

"Is this just the way I want to watch my father die?" Zhang Fang had tears in his eyes and asked sharply.

Zheng Gu, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke: "The regent came with an army this time, and he had the intention of asking the teacher to ask for guilt. But in my opinion, I'm afraid it has a deep meaning. ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Yan hurriedly asked, "What is the high opinion of my brother?" ”

After all, he has been by Zhang Yang's side, and his knowledge is slightly higher than that of Zhang Fang and Sun Qing, since Zhang Yang was defeated and killed, he has taken refuge in Zhang Yan and won Zhang Yan's trust.

Yu Gu said: "I can't call it a high opinion, but there are still some foolish opinions." If Zhang Yan really wanted to kill his eldest brother, he didn't need to lead the army in person, he could appoint a tiger to attack Montenegro in the future. However, Zhang Yan chose to lead the army in person, can't the eldest brother see Zhang Yan's intentions? ”

Zhang Yan carefully tasted the meaning of Pin's words, suddenly brightened, and hurriedly asked, "You mean, the army in my hand?" ”

"I'm just guessing, but I might as well give it a try." ”

Zhang Fang and Sun Qing were stunned for the conversation between Zhang Yan and Hao Gu, and they didn't know what the two of them meant.

At this time, Han Gu immediately hugged his fists and said: "The general of the defeated army with the ability to defeat the army, thanks to his brother's acceptance, and his trust, Hu Gu is willing to go to see the regent on behalf of his brother and find out the regent's true intentions." ”

Zhang Yan said: "Okay, I am naturally relieved that you are going to see the regent, but everything is careful." ”

Hao Gu immediately said goodbye to Zhang Yan, rode alone, went down to Montenegro, and ran directly towards Chaoge County.

At this time, in Chaoge County, the clouds of war have shrouded the entire city, and the person in charge of garrisoning here is another confidant of Zhang Yan, called Wang Dang.

When Wang Dang heard that the regent Zhang Yan was leading a large army, he actively arranged defenses and prepared for a battle with Zhang Yan.

Yu Gu rushed to Chaoge, and saw that Wang Dang was already preparing to fight, so he conveyed Zhang Yan's order not to let Wang Dang do it first. After that, he inquired about the movements of Zhang Yan's army, and knew that Zhang Yan's army was less than thirty miles away from Chaoge, so he immediately rode out of the city to meet Zhang Yan's army.

……

Zhang Yan led the cavalry first, from Ji County to Chaoge, all the way wildly, seeing that he was about to arrive at Chaoge County, Zhang Yan suddenly saw several scouts walking over with a person.

Zhang Yan stopped the group, greeted the scouts, glanced at the bound people, and asked, "What's going on?" What does this person do? ”

"Lord Qi, this person claims to be Zhang Yan's messenger, saying that he has something important to see the lord."

Zhang Yan immediately asked people to remove the things stuffed in that person's mouth and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"Villain, meet His Royal Highness the Regent."

Zhang Yan asked, "Zhang Yan sent you over, what's the matter?" ”

"Zhang Yan knew that the regent was coming, so he specially asked me to greet the regent, and Zhang Yan also knew that he had done something wrong before, and now he regrets it, and hopes to be forgiven by the regent." ”

Zhang Yan asked, "Since Zhang Yan has remorse, why didn't he come in person?" ”

"Zhang Yan was afraid that the regent would kill him, so he didn't dare to come in person, so he sent me over to convey his sincerity to the regent."

"Sincerity?" Zhang Yan sneered and asked, "Then the king wants to hear what Zhang Yan's sincerity is." ”

Yu Gu hurriedly said: "Zhang Yan listened to slander before, and mistakenly believed Yuan Shao's nonsense, so he did such a wrong thing. But all this is also a decision made by Zhang Yan in order to protect himself, after all, Montenegro borders Yuan Shao's territory, and the Yuan army is so powerful, if Zhang Yan does not agree to him, the Yuan army is likely to attack Montenegro, and then hundreds of thousands of local people will be poisoned. I also hope that the regent will forgive Zhang Yan for his betrayal this time for the sake of protecting the people. As long as the regent does not pursue the matter, in order to show his sincerity, Zhang Yan is ready to dismiss all the tens of thousands of Montenegrin troops under his subordinates, let them unload their armor and return to the field, and Zhang Yan himself will also move to Pengcheng and stay under the nose of the regent. ”

When Zhang Yan heard what he said, he was stunned in his heart, but he didn't expect Zhang Yan to have this kind of awareness. This time, he personally led a large army north to conquer the Montenegrin Army, and its purpose was to completely eliminate this wall-to-wall army. Since Zhang Yanken dismissed the troops of the Black Mountain Army by himself, it saved him a lot of trouble.

In exchange for Zhang Yan's life, in exchange for peace in the Montenegro area, this deal is really good.

However, Zhang Yan did not show the joy in his heart, but said to Hao Gu: "If Zhang Yan is really sincere, let him come to see me in person, and I can promise not to kill him." ”

After hearing this, he immediately said: "The regent will definitely not lose his trust in the world, and the little one will go back to Montenegro and let Zhang Yan personally take the blame." ”

Zhang Yan waved his hand and motioned for the scout to let him go, and he thanked him again, mounted his horse, and quickly returned to Montenegro. (To be continued......)