Chapter 1231

In Jizhou, Changshan state, Zhending City, Zhang Yan, the leader of Heishan army, is receiving a mysterious visitor. It is the envoy sent by Tang state from Luoyang, and Dong Zhao, the great craftsman of Tang state.

After receiving the king's order from Huangfu Chaobo, the Sangong Jiuqing and the people of Shangshutai in Luoyang City gathered together a group of important officials. After a secret discussion for a long time, they finally reached an agreement that although it was not the best time to recruit the Heishan army, they were still 80% or 90% sure, so they decided to send people to Changshan state to recruit them.

After the discussion, Dong Zhao finally volunteered to be a great craftsman and asked for an envoy. After the discussion, he agreed to his request. Then he reported to Huangfu Chaobo that he agreed, and immediately sent someone to escort him to Jizhou.

Today's Heishan army, with the support of Huangfu Chaobo, has barely been driven to Taihang Mountain, and still keeps more than ten cities of Changshan state. Except Lingshou and nanxingtang, the other 11 cities in Changshan are all under the control of Heishan army. If you add Linquan City, which has been upgraded to county level, and fengle City, which has been upgraded to county level by Xintianyou, there are 13 cities in the Heishan army.

, however, the Heishan army is not Zhang Yan has the final say, but a coalition state. In addition to the two forces of the two former Fengyun Huangjin figures, there are Gaoyi city controlled by Yudu and Luoshi, which has about 40000 troops and 60000 people; Fangfang city controlled by bairao and Wulu, which has about 30000 troops and 50000 people; and Pingji city and Luancheng city controlled by zuozhuzhangba and Kushen, which has a total of 60000 troops and 120000 people.

The remaining seven cities are Zhending, Jiumen, puwu, Jingxing, Shangai, Yuanshi and Shiyi under the control of Zhang Yan and a group of cronies, with a total of 100000 troops and nearly 1.1 million people. Of course, this also includes some small and medium-sized forces who took refuge in Zhang Yan's command. Although Zhang Yan has only 100000 troops, he is reminded by Huangfu Chaobo that his 100000 troops have 40000 soldiers and 60000 guards, instead of the old, the weak, the good and the bad. So on the surface, Zhang Yan's military strength is less than the total number of the others, but his combat power is far stronger than that of the others.

Among Zhang Yan's 40000 soldiers, 20000 are directly under his command. In addition, 30000 garrisons are stationed in Zhending city. Among the other 20000 soldiers, 10000 are stationed in Shangai, 5000 in Jingxing and 5000 in Jiumen. The remaining 30000 guards were scattered among the six cities.

It is precisely because Zhang Yan personally led 50000 troops to Zhending to support the rest of the cities, and sent his own qingniujiao leader to guard Jiumen, which attracted most of Wei's attention. This is why Zhang Yan maintained the territory of the 13 cities. This is also why Zhang Yan led hundreds of thousands of troops and nearly 1.5 million people of the Black Mountain Alliance Army.

However, even though Zhang Yan is the most powerful, he does not dare to easily engulf the rest of the yellow scarf army. If he does, the small yellow scarf troops attached to him will be scattered. By that time, he will have at most 60000 troops and 600000 people.

After ordering people to offer good tea and snacks, Zhang Yan waved back a group of confidants and guards, and only sent her son Zhang Fang to guard outside the door.

When there were only two of them left in the room, Zhang Yancai said slowly, "I don't know what happened when Dong Gong came to Heishan this time. Is there anything important for the king of Tang?"

Dong Zhao slowly picked up the tea cup in front of him and sipped it gently. Then he put down the cup and looked at Zhang Yan and said, "when Zhao comes here, there's really something to discuss with general Zhongying. Because it's inconvenient for correspondence, I specially sent Mr. Dong to come. "

As soon as Zhang Yan heard this, he became nervous. He knew Dong Zhao's position in the state of Tang. He was a great craftsman and was one of the lieqing who was next only to Jiuqing. Such an important minister suddenly appears in his general's house in a new face. No one will feel nervous.

"What's the matter with the king of Tang? Please tell me clearly. "

"I once heard what the great king said. When I met with general Zhonglang some time ago, general Zhonglang promised to my king that if the Tang army pointed to Hebei in the future, Zhonglang would lead the Heishan army as the tail!" Dong Zhao looked at Zhang Yan as if he didn't care and said;

Zhang Yan was shocked: "is the king of Tang ready to send troops to Hebei?"

Dong Zhao shook his head: "the northwest is not Jing, how can we send troops to Hebei?"

"Why did Mr. Dong ask such a question? Zhang Yan did say so at the beginning. However, since the Tang army had not sent troops to Hebei, if the rumor that Zhang Yan had taken refuge with the king of Tang came out at this time, the king of Wei would not give up."

Dong Zhao didn't talk about it any more. Instead, he turned the topic to another direction: "general Zhonglang knows that two days ago, our king had driven out tens of thousands of troops of King Zhao from Shangdang county. Now our army of Tang Dynasty has completely controlled the whole Shangdang county?"

"Ah?" Zhang Yan was stunned. Although he knew that the Tang Dynasty and Zhao Dynasty were fighting against the Shangdang party, he had not heard of the withdrawal of Lu Bu's army from the Shangdang party. He was shocked to hear that.

"Lu Bu among men, red rabbit among horses!"

This is not a false story. Lu Bu is famous for his bravery. A few months ago, Lu Bu personally led his army to the grassland and killed all the foreigners within 200 miles north of Yinshan Mountain.Well, no matter whether Lv Bu's army withdrew from the Shangdang by itself or was expelled from the Shangdang by the Tang army, it is an indisputable fact that he gave up the Shangdang. This is a fact seen by the whole world. Therefore, it is indisputable that Lu Bu's Zhao army is not as good as the Tang army. In fact, not only Zhang Yan was startled, but also Huangfu Chaobo was wondering when Lv Bu became so tolerant.

Zhang Yan also knows a truth, since Shangdang has become the control place of Tang state, there is no other barrier between his own Changshan state and Tang state. Thinking of this, Zhang Yan said: "don't worry, Mr. Dong. Zhang Yan is not a person who knows no good or evil, but now the king is not willing to go to war with the state of Wei. If..."

"Don't worry, general. The king didn't ask the general to fly a flag right away. I believe the king must know about the war between Tang and Qi a few years ago." Dong Zhao said with a smile;

Zhang Yan moved in her heart and immediately understood Dong Zhao's meaning: "the meaning of the king is to order us to be like Kong Yuzhou in those days?"

"Yes, the king's idea is that the general can follow the practice of Master Kong in those days. He doesn't publicize it now, but quietly prepare for it." At this point, Dong Zhao stopped again, looked at Zhang Yan and said, "if the general wants to, the king has three choices for the general. The general can choose one of them."