Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty Eighth??
Taihang Mountain is extremely large, and it is very difficult to transfer information.
But Zhang Yan was familiar with the terrain. He could predict when and where the grain transport team would arrive, and ambush it in advance.
That morning.
Zhang Yan arrived at a mountain called [Huya Mountain]. He put his hands on his hips, stood on a rock, looking down at the surrounding terrain.
This mountain is still a distance from Xiongguan between Bingzhou, Jizhou and Huguan.
It will not be attacked by the defenders in Huguan, and the road is at the foot of the mountain. Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's grain transport team will inevitably pass through this road.
Nowadays, the grass and trees are lush, and there are many snakes and insects on the mountain.
"Soldiers first use spears to drive away the snakes, and then lie down. Everyone saves some water to avoid heatstroke." Zhang Yan ordered the personal soldiers behind him.
"No." The personal soldiers agreed and turned around.
Zhang Yan looked up at the sky, went down the rock and came to the shade to sit down and rest. He waved to his personal soldiers and asked them to come over with a bottle made of bamboo tubes.
"Guru, Guru." Zhang Yan picked up the kettle and dried it for most of it, but it did not relieve the heat. The weather was too hot, not to mention that they were wearing dozens of kilograms of heavy armor. He had calculated that the soldiers lying in ambush were probably like frogs in the pot.
But this is also impossible. How can a soldier be afraid of death? He is afraid of hard work?
It was really hot, so hot that it was dizzy. Zhang Yan couldn't help but take a nap.
"General. Here comes." The voice of the personal soldiers rang in his ears. Zhang Yan shuddered and stood up, took a big gun from another personal soldiers, and stood on the rock to watch the situation.
A team of grain transporters of about 15,000 people was slowly heading west. The general's flag was "Han", and five thousand leather-armored soldiers were protected, and the rest were civilians, the remaining mules and horses, and a cart of food.
The civil servants do not mean they have no combat effectiveness. Zhang Yan looked carefully and found that many of these civil servants were carrying swords.
But it doesn't matter much. He has 10,000 troops, of which 5,000 are elite soldiers and 5,000 are miscellaneous soldiers.
Zhang Yan looked patiently without any action until the team passed by about half.
"Kill!!!" Zhang Yan shook his arms and shouted.
"Kill!!!!" Ten thousand soldiers roared angrily, stood up from the lush grass, and rushed down the mountain like a tiger going down the mountain.
At the beginning, it went very smoothly. Zhang Yan's archers shot out the arrows in their hands. The grain transport team was very chaotic, and many Minzhuang were shot and killed. Those five thousand leather-armored soldiers did not fight back at the first time, but instead looked for cover to avoid the arrows like soft persimmons.
"Kill!!! Take away all the food." Zhang Yan fought down and took the lead. Seeing this, he was overjoyed and shouted.
He has two plans. If the people transporting grain are too powerful, he chooses to burn some grain and leave. If the people transporting grain are very ordinary, he will steal all the grain.
Needless to say, rob him of the damn thing now.
Zhang Yan is known as [Flying Yan] because he is very strong in his feet, wearing heavy armor, crossing mountains and ridges like walking on flat ground.
"Kill!!!" Zhang Yan quickly killed the mountain, and with a big gun, he stabbed a farmer who transported grain to death. But soon he felt something was wrong.
"Kill!!!" Those leather soldiers hiding in bunkers or behind civilians were extremely capable. Five people came up together, two of whom used spears, two with ring-headed swords, and one with bows and arrows.
With a "dong" sound, the bow string vibrated, and Zhang Yan subconsciously lowered his head. With a click, the arrow actually shot his helmet.
But the other soldiers did not pounce on him, but rushed towards his personal soldiers.
"kill!!!"
These five enemy soldiers soon fought with his personal soldiers, extremely fierce. Not only these five soldiers, but also many soldiers, they were all capable and fierce.
In the blink of an eye, Zhang Yanjun, who was going down the mountain, was stunned. Zhang Yan took a breath of air, and didn't know that he had fallen into the [screwing enemy].
"This is the tiger and leopard cavalry!!!! Retreat quickly!" Zhang Yan shouted, and turned around and headed up the mountain.
It’s not that Zhang Yan didn’t want to cut off the rear. His force was not very strong and he had no war horses. If he left the cut off the rear, he might be surrounded by the tiger and leopard cavalry and then torn to pieces.
The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry!!! Although the weather is hot now, Zhang Yan's heart is cold. Cao Cao unified the Central Plains and had countless elite soldiers, but he was not as good as the elite Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.
Every soldier of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry has been through many battles. If a soldier loses, he will add another soldier. These soldiers are selected from the best among the various armies.
In the war when Cao Cao quelled the Central Plains, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry made great achievements and was influential in the world.
Zhang Yan knew that the 5,000 people under his command were called elite soldiers, but they were by no means the opponent of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. Now he had already fallen into the trap and was counted as one to escape.
Zhang Yan, Wang Dang, Sun Qing, and some personal soldiers walked away quickly. But the backward soldiers were in trouble. They were like sheep, slaughtered by the soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.
Among them were soldiers wearing iron armor, but the soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry seemed to be sophisticated killing machines.
He cut and slashed the neck, arms, and feet of Zhang Yanjun's iron-armored soldiers accurately, very precise and bloody. In the blink of an eye, Zhang Yanjun's soldiers were killed 50% or 60% of them, even those soldiers kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, and they did not let anyone go.
Five thousand tigers and leopard cavalry killed Zhang Yan’s five thousand elite soldiers and five thousand miscellaneous soldiers, just like cutting melons and vegetables, which was really too easy.
Under the banner of the "Han" character, Cao Chun held a big gun in his hand and looked at the Shura Field composed of corpses and blood in front of him with expressionless face.
Not only was there Zhang Yanjun's corpse, but also many of the civilians' corpses. Cao Chun had no change in expression. He would have sympathized with him before, but now... he is used to it.
"Hu Ming. You lead two thousand people to chase you. You wear leather armor and light clothes to fight. Crossing mountains and ridges is no worse than bandits. Zhang Yan wears iron armor and kills Zhang Yan."
"No." Hou of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry named Hu Ming responded to No, then ordered two thousand troops and chased Zhang Yan.
Zhang Yan ran quickly and finally escaped. When he saw his brother Wang Dang and Sun Qing were still there, and there were about two thousand soldiers under his command, all of whom were fast-footed and very clever.
Without waiting for Zhang Yansong to breathe a sigh of relief, the shouts of killing from behind came from a distance.
"Hurry, take off the armor, give up the spear, run with only the bow and knife. We can cross mountains and ridges, and we are familiar with the road, and even the tiger and leopard cavalry can't catch up with us. If you hesitate for a moment, you will die without a burial place." Zhang Yan was very smooth, and took off the helmet from his head and was still on the ground.
With a "ding dong", then he threw away his armor and fled in a hurry.
Chapter completed!