It was not until this moment that Tao Qian, Chen Deng, Cao Bao and others realized that Zhang Yan was killing people to establish his authority.

A trace of hope flashed in Chen Deng's eyes when he looked at Zhang Yan, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but it soon disappeared without a trace.

However, Tao Qian, when he saw the soldier who was killed by Zhang Yan, he would inevitably feel a little regretful. But now that things have come to this point, he has no choice but to blame Zhang Yan, it will be useless. The dead soldier will not be able to survive again.

Zhang Yan's face was ashen and his sharp eyes glanced at all the Danyang soldiers standing there. Seeing that their pants were taken off in public, he nodded with satisfaction and said aloud: "Very good. Everyone lifted their pants and stood here to wait for my arrangement."

"Here!" Two thousand,999 Danyang soldiers replied in unison. This time, they did not hesitate, for fear that if they were hesitant, they would be beheaded by Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan turned around and saw a hint of displeasure between Tao Qian's eyebrows. He immediately clasped his fists and said, "Zhang Yan killed a soldier without the permission of Lord Zhou Mu. It is really a serious crime. Please punish Lord Zhou Mu severely!"

Tao Qian sighed softly and waved his hand and said, "Forget it, Captain Zhang killed people for strict military discipline. These people have followed me for too long, and it is inevitable that they are a little arrogant. Captain Zhang will rectify me, which is not a crime. Captain Zhang, these soldiers are the strongest combat power in Xuzhou. I will hand them all to you now. I hope you can lead them to successfully complete the task of sneak attacking Cao's army's food camp."

Zhang Yan clasped his fists and said, "Sir, please rest assured. Zhang Yan will do his best to complete this important mission."

"Okay, then I'll ask Captain Zhang for everything!" Tao Qian stretched out his hand and grabbed Zhang Yan's hand firmly. It can be seen that he had high hopes for Zhang Yan, "In addition, I have someone arranged for you to practice wine, wait for a while..."

"Sir, you don't have to drink wine if you practice wine. You'd better keep it for us to drink the celebration bar when we come back." Zhang Yan interrupted Tao Qian's words and said confidently.

"Okay, then let's wait for you to return triumphantly. At that time, I will hold a big banquet in the city and I must celebrate your contributions!"

Zhang Yan looked up at the night sky and said to Tao Qian: "Sir, it's getting late, and the sky is completely dark. I want to set off now."

Seeing that Zhang Yan was about to leave, Tao Qian immediately said, "It is still a long way to go to Pei County. If you hike forward, it will not only take time, but also be very laborious. I have someone prepared three thousand war horses, each of you will ride one. If you set out now, you will be able to arrive at dawn the next day."

"I thought it very carefully and I was so impressed that I was overwhelmed." Zhang Yan said politely.

Tao Qian smiled and turned to Cao Bao who was standing behind him and said, "Tao Zhang to the stable and ask them to choose a war horse each. After that, go to the granary and ask them to bring each of them dry food for three days."

"Here!"

Cao Bao responded with a fist, and then said to Zhang Yan: "Person Zhang, please come with me with your subordinates!"

Zhang Yan nodded, and with a command, the two thousand,999 Danyang soldiers standing there motionless followed him toward the stable.

Seeing Zhang Yan leaving the prefect's mansion with Danyang soldiers, Tao Qian couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, and turned his head to Chen Deng beside him and said, "Yuanlong, if Zhang Yan fails, do you have any other solutions?"

Chen Deng frowned, thought for a while, and then replied: "Sir, if Zhang Yan does not succeed, we can temporarily give up Pengcheng, retreat to the East China Sea, and protect Tancheng alone. Tancheng is the most solid city in Xuzhou. The city has sufficient food and fodder. If we stick to it, we can withstand Cao's army for a year and a half."

"I'll leave this matter to you. If Zhang Yan cannot succeed, we have a way to retreat." Tao Qian said.

"Here!"

Zhang Yan followed Cao Bao to the stable. Three thousand people selected a war horse and asked Cao Bao to call a Danyang soldier again to supplement the gap of the Danyang soldier he killed.

Then he followed Cao Bao to the granary and collected dry food for three days, and then gathered three thousand Danyang soldiers to the Xicheng Gate.

Zhang Yan went to the prefect's office and asked the Xuzhou Governor Tao Qian to send soldiers to pretend to attack the Cao army's camp in order to attract the attention of Cao army. As long as the Xuzhou soldiers were in the east gate, he could lead three thousand Danyang soldiers to sneak out of Pengcheng from the west gate, then bypass the Cao army's camp and head towards Pei County.

Tao Qian adopted Zhang Yan's suggestion and sent Cao Bao to lead two thousand soldiers out of the city from the east gate and feinted the Cao army camp.

Only then did Zhang Yan leave the prefect's mansion with confidence, turn over and jump onto the horse, shout "Zhi" and immediately gallop towards Ximen.

On a clearing ground at the west gate of Pengcheng, three thousand Danyang soldiers were riding tall horses, waiting quietly there, waiting for the battle.

Not long after, Zhang Yan rode a war horse from the city and waited near the city gate with the three thousand soldiers.

About ten minutes later, a deafening shout came from the east gate. Zhang Yan knew that it was Cao Bao who started to act. However, he did not act immediately, but waited for a while.

In order to successfully slip out of the city and not be discovered by Cao's army, Zhang Yan deliberately wrapped the horse's hooves in cloth. In this way, the sound of the horse's hooves being run when they are in contact with the ground will not be so loud.

After about ten minutes, a scout ran over from the east gate. After seeing Zhang Yan, he directly reported to Zhang Yan about the situation at the east gate.

After hearing this, Zhang Yan suddenly felt joy on his face and shouted at the Danyang soldiers who were waiting for three thousand troops: "Go!"

With Zhang Yan's order, the city gate of the west gate was slowly opened. Zhang Yan turned his horse's head and rushed out of the city first. The three thousand Danyang soldiers followed Zhang Yan tightly, and a group of mermaids left the city. The entire team always maintained a strict formation and soon drove into the night.

Zhang Yan took these three thousand Danyang soldiers to cleverly avoid Cao's camp and ran for about five miles. He suddenly changed the direction of his journey and galloped towards Pei County.

Around the morning of the morning, Zhang Yan led the team to Pei County and temporarily rested in a forest. He ran quickly for a night and was exhausted. Moreover, he didn't know much about the situation of Cao's army in Pei County, so Zhang Yan did not dare to act rashly.

He left the army to rest in the woods, arranged for people to take turns to watch, and he himself selected a few more alert soldiers and followed him to the Peixian County where Cao's army stationed to see the situation.

Leaving the army, Zhang Yan and five soldiers quietly arrived at the periphery of Peixian County and hid in a small wood outside the city.

From a distance, there was a big banner with the word "Cao" on the city tower in Peicheng. The north wind was flying in the sky above Peicheng, but there were very few Cao soldiers standing on the city tower.

In order to be able to see the reality of Peicheng closer, Zhang Yan decided to take a risk.

He asked the five soldiers to stay in the woods, put on a white cloak that had been prepared, and lay directly in the snow, then covered his whole body with the white cloak, slowly crawled forward, approaching Peicheng bit by bit like a snake.

Since he was a mercenary killer in his previous life, it was no longer a problem for him to survive, lurk and assassinate in the wild.

He was wriggling carefully on the snow and always paid attention to the movements on the Peicheng City Tower. Once he found something abnormal, he would lie motionlessly in the snow.

Zhang Yan crawled forward for about one or two hundred meters away, and his eyes could clearly see Cao Bing on Peicheng. He was lying there, motionless, like a hibernating snake, and his hot eyes were closely watching everything on the city tower.

He glanced at Cao Bing on the tower of Peicheng City. There were indeed only a few of them, and these people were listless, and some were even napping with spears in their hands.

It was not yet bright at this time, and the world was covered in gray. Zhang Yan probably felt that it was four or five o'clock in the morning. Seeing these Cao soldiers watching, they couldn't help but take a nap. Then Cao soldiers in Pei City must have been sleeping soundly.

He thought to himself: "I originally thought that the defense of Cao's army would be very strict, but I didn't expect that it would be so slack. The tiger also took a nap. It seemed that Lejin thought Xuzhou would do his best to deal with the main force of Cao's army and neglected to prevent it."

But to be cautious, Zhang Yan circled around Peicheng and completely touched the situation of Peicheng. It can basically be concluded that Cao's defense was very loose. If a sudden attack was taken at this time, he would definitely catch Cao's army off guard.

When he thought of this, Zhang Yan smiled and said in his heart: "God helps me!"

He immediately returned to the woods and asked one of the soldiers to go back and pass the orders, and let the entire army arrive here secretly. He and the other four soldiers stayed to continue to monitor Peicheng.

Soon, all the soldiers gathered secretly in the woods.

Zhang Yan selected ten archers who were good at shooting archery, followed him and quietly approached Peicheng, leaving the rest of the soldiers waiting in the woods.

Zhang Yan brought ten archers who were good at archery, each of whom was covered with a layer of white cloth, and carefully crawled forward on the snow, slowly approaching Peicheng.

When everyone was about eighty steps away from Peicheng, Zhang Yan saw that the soldiers on Peicheng's tower were still dozing, so he ordered the ten archers to aim at one Cao's soldier to shoot, while he took out a bow and arrow and prepared to capture the remaining three Cao's soldiers by one.

Eleven people put arrows on the bowstrings and aimed at Cao Bing who was standing guard on the city tower. However, when Zhang Yan heard a soft cry, the eleven arrows flew directly to the city tower of Peicheng.

"Swoosh, swosh, swosh..."

The arrows slashed through the sky and shot towards Cao Bing. The Cao Bing, who were standing guard, fell one by one, and were all pierced by an arrow.

Zhang Yan shot an arrow, the second and third arrows followed closely. When the eleven Cao soldiers were shot to death and fell to the ground and made a muffled sound, the other two Cao soldiers were immediately awakened. Seeing Cao soldiers lying in a pool of blood, both of them looked surprised. Just as they were about to shout, two cold lights shot through their throats, making them unable to shout out, fell to the ground, and died in struggle.

After the soldiers standing guard on the city wall were dealt with, at Zhang Yan's order, eleven people rushed over to Peicheng quickly. After a short time, they arrived at the base of the city wall, took out the flying hooks that had been prepared and threw them on the city wall.
Chapter completed!