Three Kingdoms King of the North

Zhang Yun waited for Han Zhan to introduce the situation in Jizhou, and immediately stood up from the queue, clasped his fists and said, "My lord, He is willing to lead the army to take Jizhou. Please agree, my lord!"

Seeing that Zhang Yun took the initiative to ask for orders, Han Zhan was still quite happy in his heart. Zhang Yun's performance was enough to prove that he was still quite loyal to him.But after thinking about it, he still shook his head and said: "General Jun, I plan to lead the troops to capture Jizhou myself, while you stay here and stick to Guangping City."

After Zhang Yun was rejected by Han Zhan, although he felt a little disappointed, he still replied: "The last general obeys!" Then he retreated into the queue.

Han Zhan's eyes swept over everyone one by one, and finally stopped on Huang Zhong at the end, and he shouted: "Huang Junhou!"

Hearing Han Zhan calling his name, Huang Zhong hurriedly stepped out, clasped his hands and replied, "The subordinate is here!"

"I order you to lead three thousand cavalry and set off overnight!" Since Zhang He surrendered, Han Zhan had several thousand more cavalry. He decided to let the cavalry play a role in the battle to capture Jizhou, so he told Huang Zhong: " You can use the banner of General Jun to open the city gate."

These three thousand cavalry were originally Zhang He's subordinates, and the banners and the like were all ready-made.When Huang Zhong heard the task assigned to him by Han Zhan, he felt that he was taking the initiative to give credit to himself, and quickly replied: "This subordinate takes orders!"

After Huang Zhong's cavalry set off, Han Zhan also took Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, and Guo Jia, commanding an army of [-], and set off towards Jizhou overnight.Only Zhang Yun was left alone to guard Guangping City.

Dian Wei, who was following Han Zhan, turned his head and glanced at the Guangping city wall that was getting farther and farther away, and asked Han Zhan with some concern: "Master, Zhang Yun has not long since surrendered. Is it appropriate for you to hand over the city to him? No, you let me go back to the city so I can watch him too."

"Lieutenant Dian is worrying too much," Han Zhan said to him with a smile, "As the saying goes: Employers don't doubt others. Since I handed over the city to Zhang Yun, it proves that I trust him. How can I send someone to monitor him?" What about him? If you follow me to Jizhou, it will be more useful than staying in Guangping City."

Hearing what Han Zhan said, Dian Wei couldn't help but asked curiously: "What can I use for going to Jizhou City?"

Han Zhan smiled and didn't answer, but he was thinking in his heart: "With Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Dian Wei around, don't say that Yuan Shao is only surrounded by Yan Liang and Qu Yi, even if you add ugliness, it's still not me. It is just around the corner to regain Jizhou and meet Gongsun Zan at Jieqiao."

Chapter 0114

The cavalry led by Huang Zhong arrived near Jizhou City in just over an hour.Looking at the outline of the city in the distance, Huang Zhong ordered the troops beside him to slow down.

Although the three military commanders who accompanied the army had higher official positions than Huang Zhong, they had to obey Huang Zhong's orders because Huang Zhong was Han Zhan's own vanguard.A Sima named Pu Taojun came to Huang Zhong's side, and asked him respectfully: "Huang Junhou, it is not far from Jizhou City now, should we open the city gate overnight, or enter the city after dawn?"

Huang Zhong turned his head and glanced at Pu Tao, and replied: "The Lord Hou ordered us to open the city gate, how can we wait until dawn!" He cupped his hands at the other party, and continued, "I don't have a Jizhou accent. The garrison heard the flaw, and will trouble Pu Sima to open the city gate later."

Seeing Huang Zhong being so polite to him, Pu Tao said unambiguously: "Don't worry, Huang Junhou, the general will definitely make money himself."

When the cavalry came to the city, Huang Zhong looked at the five-foot-high city wall and the two-foot-wide moat, and thought to himself: "Such a fortified city, if Pu Sima was spotted by the defenders when he was making the city, he would have three thousand cavalrymen alone. But there is no way to break through."

Just as Huang Zhong was thinking, he suddenly heard someone in the city asking loudly: "Where are you soldiers and horses from?"

Pu Tao hurriedly rode his horse to the forefront of the team, stood by the moat, looked up at the city wall and said loudly: "We are the subordinates of General Zhang Jun, so we were ordered to rescue Jizhou?"

"Nonsense!" A loud voice suddenly came from the city: "My lord clearly ordered Zhang He to attack Guangping City. When did you come to rescue Jizhou?"

Pu Tao couldn't help but panic for a while, he never dreamed that someone in the city would know Yuan Shao's order.Fortunately, he was smart enough, after a brief panic, he asked loudly towards the city: "Which general is in the city?"

Soon the loud voice came from the city: "This is Chunyu Qiong, the general under the command of the lord!"

"So it's General Zhong Jian," Pu Tao's heartbeat finally returned to normal when he heard the people in the city reveal his identity, "I am Pu Tao, the commander of General Jun's army. The last time the general accompanied the Lord to Guantao During the inspection, I also had a chance encounter with the general."

Since Chunyuqiong was exchanged by Yuan Shao with Gengwu Minchun, he has been disliked all the time, so that this time when Yuan Shao sent troops to Jieqiao, he didn't take him with him, but let him stay to assist Tian Feng in defending the city.Just now he saw a cavalry coming towards the city, afraid that it was the troops sent by Han Zhan to attack the city, so he ordered the officers and soldiers under the city to get ready.At this moment, when the person below reported his name, he turned out to be a military Sima he knew, so he lowered his vigilance: "So Pu Sima, I wonder why you are here in Jizhou?"

"Back to General Zhongjian," said Pu Tao respectfully at the base of the city: "Yesterday my lord sent someone to deliver a letter to my general, saying that the troops in Jizhou City were empty, and ordered him to send reinforcements as soon as possible. The younger one was ordered by my general to come here. From Jizhou."

Hearing what Pu Tao said, the doubts in Chunyu Qiong's mind eased a bit.Even though he is being ignored by Yuan Shao now, and many confidential things cannot be known, he still knows about Yuan Shao sending someone to deliver a letter to Zhang Xi for two consecutive days, so he believes Pu Tao's words.But just to be on the safe side, he still lay down on the crenel and said to the people below: "Pu Sima, it's getting late, you should rest outside the city for a night, and then enter the city at dawn tomorrow."

Pu Tao realized that Chunyu Qiong was going to shut him out, and quickly complained: "General Zhong Jian, my general ordered me to rush to Jizhou as soon as possible after receiving the letter from the lord. The brothers have been on the road for a day and a night. At this moment, we are exhausted, so I beg General Zhong Jian to let us go to the city to rest."

If Chunyuqiong was a thoughtful person, he might have sent someone to find Tian Feng, and asked him what was said in the two letters sent by Yuan Shao to Zhang He.Seeing Pu Tao begging bitterly, he thought that there were only [-] county soldiers in the city, if there were thousands of cavalry, even if the enemy invaded, it would be enough to resist.

Thinking of this, Chunyu Qiong shouted to the soldiers standing aside: "Put down the drawbridge, open the city gate, and let the cavalry outside enter the city."

As soon as the suspension bridge was lowered and the city gate opened, Pu Tao, who was standing at the front of the team, suppressed the smile on his face, raised the weapon in his hand, and shouted: "Kill!" Soldiers, took the lead and rushed into the doorway.

Seeing the cavalry rushing into the city, even if Chunyu Qiong was a fool, he knew that he had been fooled. He yelled loudly and rushed down the slope with his weapon in hand.When two cavalrymen saw Chunyu Qiong coming down from the tower, they knew that he was a high-ranking official, so they rushed their horses over and tried to take him down, so as to make a great contribution.

Seeing the two cavalrymen rushing over, Chunyuqiong yelled hello, stood still without dodging, aimed at the cavalryman who was rushing in front, and stabbed at him, picking him off the horse.But the huge inertia made him take several steps back in a row, thus dodging the saber cut by another cavalryman by accident.He turned around on the spot, made a move to return the carbine, and stabbed the cavalryman off the horse.

Chunyu Qiong didn't go to check on the two cavalrymen who had fallen off their horses, but got on their horses and charged towards the cavalrymen pouring into the city with guns in both hands.The cavalry who were rushing towards the city did not expect that a fierce general of Yuan Jun would be killed in the slanting stab. In a short while, four or five cavalry were picked off by him, and they were caught under the iron hooves by the horses behind.

"Chunyu Qiong is going crazy, eat me!" Just as Chunyu Qiong was brandishing a spear and stabbing wildly in the cavalry formation, suddenly there was a roar from the side, and a man with the appearance of a military lord waved a big knife at him. rushed over.

Chunyuqiong saw that the other party was just a military lord, and guessed that the other party's martial arts were limited, so he didn't take him seriously at all.Seeing the big knife in the opponent's hand slashing towards him, he just raised the gun with both hands and pointed upwards, preparing to block the opponent's weapon and stab him to death with another shot.

Unexpectedly, Chunyu Qiong realized that he underestimated the enemy after the ear-piercing chirping of gold and iron, and the opponent's knife almost shattered his jaws.Seeing that the one strike didn't work, the man hastily resorted to a second move. This time Chunyu Qiong didn't dare to underestimate the enemy, so he quickly raised the barrel of his gun and took the opponent's strike with all his might.

He originally thought that even if he couldn't defeat the opponent, he could at least maintain an invincible state.Unexpectedly, after only five or six rounds, he realized that he was wrong again, this person's martial arts were not inferior to Zhao Yun's.He wanted to pull his horse and run away, but seeing enemy cavalry all around him, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue fighting the military lord.

Huang Zhong slashed more than a dozen knives in a row, beating Chunyu Qiong in a hurry. He saw a gap, slapped him off the horse with the back of the knife, and then ordered his men: "Come here, tie him up!"

Chunyuqiong, who fell from the horse, was completely hopeless at the moment, thinking that in just ten days, Han Zhan's men had opened the city gate twice and captured him alive twice.Even if Han Zhan let him go again this time, instead of letting him go back and face no one, it would be better for them to kill him with one knife.

Chapter 0115

Huang Zhong would definitely not kill Chunyu Qiong easily, he ordered people to keep him under strict supervision, and then led them to the state pastoral mansion.

There were not many defenders in the city. Except for a few who were on duty on the city wall, the rest stayed in the barracks honestly. Huang Zhong and the others took down Jizhou City at an almost negligible cost. Chunyuqiong was captured, and Yuan Xi who was staying in the state pastoral mansion was captured again.

Han Zhan came to Jizhou City with soldiers and horses at dawn.Looking at the big "Han" flag flying over the city, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. He once said that within three to five years, he would recapture Jizhou from Yuan Shao, not to mention that others thought he was talking nonsense. , Even I feel that this possibility is slim.Unexpectedly, after just over half a year, I drove into Jizhou with tens of thousands of horses.

Arriving at the State Shepherd's Mansion, after Han Zhan took his seat in the middle, he first praised Huang Zhong for his great achievements, promoted him to the rank of captain, and then ordered: "Bring Chunyu Qiong, Yuan Xi and others here!"

Chunyuqiong and Yuan Xi were escorted by four soldiers and entered the main hall.Han Zhan smiled and said to the two, "General Chunyu and Second Young Master, I really didn't expect that we would meet again so soon!"

Chunyuqiong raised her head and said loudly: "Since it is in your hands again, you can kill or cut it up as you like. If I frown, I am not a good man."

Although Han Zhan sent troops from Sheguo County under the banner of avenging his father, but for those captured Yuan Shao's men, he only imprisoned them and never killed them.Because once Yuan Shao becomes a polished commander, let alone Cao Cao, even Gongsun Zan can deal with him.Instead of destroying Yuan Shao, it is better to keep him, at least he can contain Gongsun Zan and Cao Cao, so that he can gain precious time for development, and when he becomes stronger, he will eliminate them one by one, so he said politely to Chunyuqiong: "General Chunyu, who said I'm going to kill you?"

"Aren't you going to kill me?!" Chunyu Qiong didn't seem to want to kill himself at all when he heard Han Zhan's tone, so he hurriedly asked, "Are you going to let me go?" Just after saying this, he suddenly realized that if If he was really released, he probably wouldn't be liked by Yuan Shao, and he would be ridiculed by others in the future. Instead of that, it would be more worry-free to let Han Zhan kill him.

Han Zhan ordered the four soldiers standing in the hall: "Quickly untie General Chunyu and Second Master Yuan!" After they were untied, he looked at Yuan Xi again and said, "Second Master Yuan, you should know, Han’s rebellion was not for rebellion, but to avenge his father. Now Han knows that the culprit who killed his father was Feng Ji’s thief. Please Yuan Ergong go back and tell your father that as long as Feng Ji’s head is sent, Han is willing Hand it back to Jizhou, and return to Sheguo County to be a small country-related order."

Han Zhan’s seemingly heart-to-heart words, let alone Yuan Xi was dumbfounded, even Guo Jia who was sitting by the side was also confused, but he didn’t ask Han Zhan why he said that in front of everyone, just Wait and see what happens without saying a word.

"Marquis of Zhangshuiting, are you saying that as long as my father sends Fengji's head, you can retreat?" Yuan Xi asked in an unbelievable tone: "Is this all true?"

"It's hard to chase after a word," Han Zhan knew that Feng Ji was Yuan Shao's confidant, and he would flatter him. It would be no wonder Yuan Shao would kill him, so he put on a swearing look and said, "I, Han, swear to God, If Yuan Cheqi doesn't return Jizhou after delivering Fengji's head, he will die in the future, and he will die with thousands of arrows."

Seeing Han Zhan swear such a poisonous oath, Yuan Xi's heart suddenly became more at ease.He tentatively asked: "I wonder if the Marquis of Zhangshuiting can send someone to escort me to Jieqiao, and convey your thoughts to my father?"

"No problem, I can send someone to escort the second son of Yuan to Jieqiao and reunite with Yuan Cheqi." Han Zhan had no intention of keeping Yuan Xi behind, so he asked Zhao Yun to send two cavalry to escort Yuan Xi to Jieqiao. Qiao meets Yuan Shao.

After sending Yuan Xi away and putting Chunyu Qiong in prison, Han Zhan ordered Tian Feng to be brought up.

Tian Feng walked into the main hall with his head down, led by a soldier.He came to Han Zhan, gave a deep salute, and said: "Feng see Zhangshui Pavilion Marquis!"

"Mr. Yuan Hao, excuse me!" Han Zhan stepped forward to support his arm, and at the same time said politely, "Mr. Yuan Hao has been wronged, please sit down and talk."

After Tian Feng sat down, he said with some emotion: "In the past, the Marquis of Zhangshuiting left Jizhou and said that he would recapture Jizhou in three to five years. I and the old Han family thought that the Marquis was doing it to appease people's hearts. Who ever thought that, In just half a year, you commanded a large army into Jizhou, which is really unpredictable."

Han Zhan has limited talents. Seeing Tian Feng at this moment, he said impatiently: "Mr. Yuan Hao, although Jizhou is in my hands now, but there is no one available under him. I wonder if sir can help me?"