A few days later, Zhang Yan led his soldiers to Fanyang first.

"Tell me the order, and rush with me to fight to reach Fanyang City before dark tomorrow." Zhang Yan was full of fighting spirit and said to the commanders under her command.

At this time, he saw Zhang Fan, the personal general under his command, saying, "General, the lord once instructed us to advance carefully after we arrive in Fanyang and prevent the ambush of the bandits."

Zhang Yan waved his hand and said, "Of course you have to listen to the words of the lord, but don't you know what Gongsun Zan is like now? He only has more than 30,000 people. Even if he leads his army to Fanyang, there are only 20,000 people at most. But there are more than 30,000 people in our Heishan Army alone, plus the lord's 20,000 people, and we have a total of 50,000 people. Did Gongsun Zan eat the courage of the bear heart and leopard? Dare to ambush us? Hehe, I am still looking forward to him ambushing me. At that time, I just broke his army and captured Gongsun Zan alive."

"What the general said is, with our powerful force, what is Gongsun Zan? Then the custody will tell him to come and go." After hearing what Zhang Yan said, Zhang Fan felt very reasonable, and suddenly felt proud and no longer had the previous worries.

Then the command of the troops Bu Zhang Yan was ordered to advance fire and must arrive at Fanyang City before sunset the next day. So the army accelerated again and advanced with all its strength.

After the Black Mountain Army advanced for a long time, it came to a dense forest. At this time, the sky was already dusk, and the dense forest was silent and looked a little gloomy.

"After passing through this jungle, we will set up camp and rest for a night. Soldiers, don't worry, just walk forward boldly." Zhang Yan saw that the soldiers were all exhausted, but he decided to go through this jungle first and then stop to rest.

The soldiers of the Black Mountain Army were indeed exhausted, but since the general had said that, they could only continue to walk on. Fortunately, this dense forest did not look very vast and could walk out in at most half an hour.

However, unexpectedly, at this moment, a sudden sound of breaking through the air suddenly came from the dense forest. Everyone's face changed and shouted loudly: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

Zhang Yan, who was walking in front of the horse first, changed his expression. He jumped and floated onto a big tree nearby. He sat down and was shot into a hedgehog. He sneered and fell to the ground with a wail.

Zhang Yan clearly saw on the tree that his soldiers screamed in pain. At this moment, hundreds of people were probably killed on the spot, and countless injured people. Even his most trusted personal general Zhang Fan died under the arrows.

"Hateful! I really didn't expect that I actually encountered an ambush. Alas, Zhang Fan reminded me at the beginning, but I couldn't listen, which led to Zhang Fan's death. This is all my fault. But fortunately, I was enthroned by my lord and my light skills have improved greatly than before. Otherwise, I would have been among the soldiers who died today."

Zhang Yan waited quietly on the tree until the end of the arrow rain, and then jumped back to the army again, rode a bossless war horse, and then shouted loudly: "Soldiers, don't panic, the bandit army does not have much combat power. As long as we calm down and fight calmly, we will be able to turn defeat into victory."

However, the Black Mountain Army itself does not have strong discipline. Although after so many days of rectification, it has made some progress in abiding by military discipline, it is only limited to normal times. Now, at the critical moment of life and death, he is scattered and flees all over the place. Zhang Yan's flying swallow skill has no positive effect, but instead makes the Black Mountain Army run faster. Every time he thinks of this, he can't laugh or cry.

"Oh, these trash people fled without considering military discipline at critical moments."

Zhang Yan lamented in his heart, but he could not stop this chaos. Fortunately, he also took the opportunity to gather more than a thousand defeated troops, and led these people to retreat while continuing to gather soldiers.

However, at this moment, there was only a shout of killing not far behind. It turned out that the ambush appeared and chased the chaotic Black Mountain Army.

"Let's go!" Although he was very unwilling to give up, Zhang Yan knew that he was unable to fight with the other party at this time. He had to grit his teeth and lead the soldiers under his command to retreat.

Zhang Yan retreated nearly twenty miles before the enemy gradually retreated. At this time, Zhang Yan gathered the remaining troops and found that the army of more than 30,000 people was now only less than 20,000. Except for less than 1,000 people, they were shot to death or killed by the enemy, the remaining ones either fled or chose to surrender.

"Oh, it's really abominable. If you accidentally get caught by the thief, you not only fail to make a contribution, but you will lose your troops and regret not listening to your lord's words." Zhang Yan secretly regretted and ordered the soldiers to build camps to defend themselves, and then wait for the arrival of Liu He's army.

However, at night, the enemy army came again. Fortunately, Zhang Yan led his personal soldiers to fight to the death in danger, and finally retreated from the enemy's attack. However, even so, Zhang Yan still lost two or three thousand people.

Due to the continuous defeat, the morale of the army declined very strongly. Fortunately, Zhang Yan had a prestige in the army and ordered the soldiers to divide them into two groups. One group regardless of fatigue, formed a formation to guard the death, and the other group built defense overnight. After a night of hard work, he finally established the camp before dawn.

Zhang Yan ignored his fatigue and ordered the soldiers who built the camp to rest. He led the crowd to defend himself for a long time, and then ordered the group of soldiers who had already rested to defend. Then he ordered the soldiers who had been resting for the whole night and most of the day to rest. However, he himself did not dare to be careless and insisted on guarding until Liu He led the main army to come. During this period, the enemy attacked, and Zhang Yan's soldiers lost more than 2,000 more people...

"Lord, the last general did not obey the order, and was ambushed, resulting in the loss of troops and generals, and the aggression of our army. Please ask the lord to sue it!"

As soon as Liu He's army arrived, Zhang Yan hurriedly came to Liu He's horse, confessed his guilt and asked Liu He to deal with it.

Liu He's face darkened and said loudly: "Zhang Yan, you did not obey my orders and advanced rashly, but you were ambushed by the enemy, resulting in such a defeat. If you follow the rules, you should be killed. However, when you are employed, and you have worked properly later and worked hard for several days and never sleeps, you finally defended the camp. Therefore, you will be saved from death and will be demoted to the General of the Xingyi Central Army. You will still be in charge of your old subordinates and will be allowed to commit crimes and make meritorious contributions. If you violate my orders in the future, you will definitely be killed. Let's go and rest."

"I hope, I will thank you for not killing you. Please rest assured. I will definitely swear to be loyal to you to your lord in the future. I will never dare to slack off any more!" Zhang Yan wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, thanked Liu He, and then hurriedly walked down.

"Everyone, now that Zhang Yan is defeated, our vanguard is frustrated, and the morale of the enemy has increased greatly. It is not easy to break through Fan Yang. In this case, we must fight a tough battle and forcefully break through Fan Yang in order to boost morale and catch the enemy's spirit. Please do not slackew and deal with it with all our strength!"
Chapter completed!