Among the five thousand cavalry of Heishan, there is also a complete light cavalry with a population of not too many or too many ten thousand. This is Zhang Yan's direct cavalry - Feiyan Light Cavalry; the remaining five thousand cavalry are also brave men selected from tens of thousands of Black Mountain troops.

Therefore, these Black Mountain cavalry are the elite troops with the strongest combat effectiveness under Zhang Yan.

If all the elite cavalry were killed in this battle, the strength of the Heishan Army would inevitably drop by more than 40%. In the future, if Yuan Shao sent troops to the mountains to encircle and suppress the enemy, wouldn’t the Heishan Army be wiped out?

Therefore, Zhang Yan naturally did not want to be cannon fodder for the Allied forces, and would not work hard for Yuan Shao. Because Yuan Shao's order was clearly intended to use the hands of the Western Liang army to destroy the most combat-capable Feiyan Light Cavalry in the Heishan Army. After this battle, Yuan Shao could lead his army to capture the old nest of the Heishan Army, and then incorporate the Heishan Army, which won hundreds of thousands of women, children and families.

This is a plan to kill two birds with one stone, and it can be achieved by killing two birds with one stone. Yuan Shao is profitable. No matter what the result is, he will make sure to make a profit without losing money.

How can you hide such tricks from Zhang Yan?

Therefore, he bluntly pointed out Yuan Shao's sinister intentions, and the implication was that he refused to go to the battle.

And this is exactly the difference between Zhang Yan and Lu Bu. Because Lu Bu was an extremely handsome man, he led Yanzhou and became a prince, and he always talked about his identity and wanted face in everything. So he was an ally who had the identity of Lu Bu, making it impossible for him to reject Yuan Shao's orders in a positive way.

Compared with this, Zhang Yan is completely different. What is his identity and status?

Zhang Yan's identity is the leader of the Black Mountain bandits. As for status, after going to Black Mountain, he was nothing, just a thief, with no status at all. For such a person, identity and status are very strange to him. He values ​​survival and strength, and as for other things that seek fame, it is almost unrelated to him.

Therefore, whenever something is related to his own interests, Zhang Yan will definitely not tolerate and retreat, fight for everything, and will not give in at all, and there is no such concern as Lu Bu or other princes. Therefore, he can refuse Yuan Shao's general order without mercy, and he does not care about Yuan Shao's face as the leader of the princes. Because face is a complete luxury for him. No one has ever given him face, so he naturally does not need to take into account the face of others. Who made him still a thief?

"Hmph, the thief will not change! Yuan asked you for your opinion kindly, that is to give you face. Don't be rude?" Seeing that Zhang Yanming was stubborn, he lost his face in public. Yuan Shao was furious and scolded him in a sinister way.

"Hehehe!" Seeing Yuan Shao completely tearing his face and insulting him, Zhang Yan sneered without blushing, "Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao, just because you have the face to say kindness in front of me? I think you are not at all kind, and it is true that you are sinister!"

While speaking, Zhang Yan pointed to the Xiliang Army formation five hundred steps away and said angrily: "Look at the enemy on the other side. There are more than 100,000 combat cavalry, so why did you ask General Fengxian and me to lead 50,000 combat cavalry to rush forward? Ask yourself, what are your intentions? Isn't this sinister intentions? What's that?"

"You??????" After being picked out by Zhang Yan in public, Yuan Shao's face turned red, and his face turned thickly on his neck, stretched out his hand at Zhang Yan, but he was speechless.

"What are you? Quickly retract your claws, otherwise you don't blame Zhang for being ruthless and chopping your claws with one knife!"

Since he had already broken up with his face openly, Zhang Yan had no scruples anymore and simply showed his posture and did not give Yuan Shao face. After scolding Yuan Shao sternly, he stared at Yuan Shao with a sharp expression, "You don't have to pretend to be good people, and don't want to use the Xiliang army to get rid of me, Zhang Yan and General Fengxian, so as to achieve your goal of monopolizing Hebei and dominating the Central Plains. At present, we are an alliance. But the allies should trust each other and share honor and disgrace, rather than waiting for an opportunity to eliminate dissidents like you, Yuan Benchu, and greatly weaken the troops and strength of various princes. In today's battle, if you can tear open the defense line of the Xiliang army, Zhang and General Fengxian will lead the cavalry to attack, otherwise you will not want to order Zhang to fight.

Since you and I have broken up today, I simply left the ugly words here. I, Zhang Yan, are just a yellow turban thief, and they have a bad life. It is a lucky chance to survive until now. The brothers under my command are all the remnants of the Yellow Turban. After today, I don’t know if I will still be alive tomorrow. So, even if I was defeated by the Xiliang Army today, I, Zhang Yan, don’t care. I can only die at the worst. I am not afraid of death, what about you?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Yan looked at Yuan Shao with disdain and laughed: "Hehehe??? You Yuan Benchu ​​are afraid that you can't bear to die now, right? You monopolize Hebei, dominate the Central Plains, compete for the world, and conquer the country. These are probably the ambitions that you, Yuan Shao, have been obsessed with?

What ambition! It sounds enviable. I, Zhang Yan, once had such a dream, but now I have no such unrealistic thoughts. I just hope that in my lifetime, I can let my brothers live and work in peace, hundreds of thousands of women and children can settle down and live a good life. As for me, Zhang Yan, if I can be awarded the title of marquis and the title of wife and son, I will have enough wishes and will have no regrets in this life.

On the other hand, Yuan Shao, you are very ambitious and talented, have a harsh and courageous personality. You don’t have the ability of an emperor, but you dream of an emperor all day long. As the leader of the princes and the leader of the princes and the leader, you always think about weakening the strength of the allies of the princes and the whole country. How can such a narrow-minded and short-sighted person achieve great things? Is the leader of the alliance who thinks Zhang is correct? "

"The thief insulted me too much. Do you really think Yuan can't do anything to you?" Yuan Shao shouted sternly in anger.

"Kill me? Hahaha!" Zhang Yan looked at Yuan Shao with contempt and laughed unscrupulously: "Three years ago, Yuan Shao wanted to take the head of my neck, what was the result? To this day, Zhang is still standing in front of you without any damage.

Now that the enemy is facing a great enemy, you don’t want to defeat the Xiliang army, but you want to kill me? Is this the true face of Yuan Shao, the son of the Yuan family of four generations and three dukes, who is the leader of the Central Plains? If that is true, Zhang is ashamed to be with you, a person who is so famous!"

"Ah??????" Yuan Shao was really angry with Zhang Yan, and gritted his teeth and scolded him: "Zhang Yan thief, Yuan and you are unwilling to give up!"

Seeing that the dispute between Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan became more and more intense, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Ce and Zhang Yang looked at each other, and then looked at the fierce battle in front of him. The four of them suddenly looked dim, their faces were full of haze, and their eyes were filled with endless worries.

However, these are all superficial phenomena. In fact, some of them are happy and some are worried. However, at this moment, they all showed a worried look. After all, everyone is still allies at the moment, and it is necessary to be consistent in their pace.

"The leader of the alliance will calm down, General Zhang Yan said less. When the enemy is in front of us, we must not be in chaos within our allied forces! Otherwise, once the thief is discovered, we can take advantage of the opportunity, and we will die today without a place to bury!"

Seeing that Zhang Yan and Yuan Shao were having a big fight, Liu Bei, who was standing on Yuan Shao’s left, had to stand up and fight to smooth things over. Otherwise, if they were allowed to continue arguing, Zhang Yan might be able to turn against each other; by then, before the Western Liang army could fight within the Allied forces.

When Liu Bei came forward to smooth things over, he deeply felt that it was an extremely wrong decision to lead his troops to join the alliance. To this day, there are many grudges among all the princes and the resentment is very deep. Who can truly let go of the past grudges and have no grudges? If you cannot let go of your grudges, how can you unite and work together to plan major events?

This time, the princes finally formed an alliance, but the result was that if the war went smoothly, it would be fine. Once the war was not going well, the princes would shirk responsibility and refuse to fight, and deliberately preserve their strength would be inevitable. Just like in this situation, the enemy is in front of the Xiliang army, but the Allied forces are fighting in this critical moment.

Such an extremely bad Allied army has little combat power left, so how can we defeat the strong Western Liang army?

At this moment, Liu Bei was worried and in a bad mood. Not only him, but also several other princes were worried, and a lingering melancholy appeared on his face.

Therefore, at this moment, the princes of all walks of life were no longer intent to persuade Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan. After Liu Bei came forward to persuade him, everyone else watched coldly and kept silent, but their eyes were very bad, and they glanced at Yuan Shao intentionally or unintentionally.

Obviously, Zhang Yan's words just now made them feel alert, and they felt that Yuan Shao had ulterior motives, which prompted them to agree with Zhang Yan's ideas, which was quite indifferent to the enemy.

"Transfer, catapult formation attack!"

Yuan Shao keenly noticed that the various princes had different expressions, which made him feel that the situation was not good, and he was afraid that the princes would be bewitched by Zhang Yan and had a strange ambition. So he made a quick decision and took advantage of the fact that the chariot formation had not been completely eliminated by the Western Liang army, and ordered the catapult formation to launch an attack, trying to bomb the Central Army in the Western Liang army in a fierce battle, give the Western Liang army a center to break the Xiliang army's position in one fell swoop. When the Xiliang army was in chaos, it was the time when the Allied cavalry attacked, and the Allied 240,000 infantry took the opportunity to crush it. If the progress went smoothly, the final victory was still the Allied forces. After the war was over, it would not be too late for him to turn around and deal with Zhang Yan.

"No, I will obey the order!"

After receiving the order respectfully, Yuan Xi glared at Zhang Yan angrily, then rushed to the rear army by horses, commanding the stone-pourling chariot formation to detour on both wings of the army, and then threw turbulent oil tanks at the Xiliang army and bombed them wildly.

After Yuan Xi left, Yuan Shao's cold eyes passed by Zhang Yan, and then he turned around and looked at the open space behind the army. The open space was located directly behind the Allied Central Army. It was a low-lying wasteland in a radius of five miles, and it was exactly five miles away from the Allied camp.

After his eyes stopped in the open space, Yuan Shao turned his head to look at the battlefield in front of the formation. Although the battle in front of him was still not optimistic, a strange smile appeared between his eyebrows.

At this moment, Cao Cao accidentally caught a glimpse of the strange smile on Yuan Shao's side face. He suddenly became suspicious and thought to himself: "Is it possible that Yuan Benchu ​​and Zhang Yan had a deliberate dispute, but actually had other plans? If this is the case, then this decisive battle is really a battle of wits and courage. What is the ending of which is unpredictable!"

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Chapter completed!