Swearing

Author: Crazy Chen

Swearing

April 13, the sixth year of Guanghe.

At the foot of Fenggao City, Zhang Chong, the general of Taiping Road, ordered all Taishan troops to gather in the east of Bo County. The various ministries originally stationed in various places handed over defense to the field guards in each city and assembled within three days.

All of a sudden, the Taishan army's cavalry came out in all directions, and their feathers were flying. After receiving the military order, the various ministries handed over the defense to the field guards. Their armor was cold, their spears and halberds were like a forest, and they entered Bo County with the sound of chariots and horses.

At this time, Zhang Chong was already in the big tent in the east of Bo County. He wore yellow clothes and fasted in the big tent without eating for a day and a night. Waiting for the 16th of April, the army gathered, with five thousand soldiers, fighting with anger.

Zhang Chong finally came out of the tent and shouted:

"Raise swords and soldiers, exchange for peace, and restore the Qingming Dynasty to the world!"

All the sergeants wore apricot yellow forehead scarves, linen clothes and straw sandals, and shouted:

"Raise swords and soldiers, exchange for peace, and restore the Qingming Dynasty to the world!"

The sound moves Wenshui.

Zhang Chong shouted again:

"This battle must be won. Now we gather our troops and go north to show the Emperor of the Han Dynasty what the anger of the people of the world is."

"Must win" "Must win"

Later, Zhang Chong killed the ox and the white horse to sacrifice to Huang Tian, ​​and committed three major crimes in the Han Dynasty:

The first crime is that the country is immoral and licentious. The second crime is that the officials expropriate and expropriate the people. The third crime is that the power is greedy and the annexation is excessive.

For these three crimes, I sued Huang Tian and said:

"The sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand up. Act on behalf of heaven and ask for orders for the people."

Afterwards, the entire army paid homage to Huang Tian and swore an oath to go into battle.

Zhang Chong left Yang Mao to guard Laiwu, and took 5,000 elite troops with him, and headed north to Jibei Kingdom along the Wenshui River by boat and carriage.

On April 18, the Taishan Army marched north to Snake Hill.

The Jibei State Administration Office stationed in Sheqiu abandoned the city and left, and Zhou Feng in the city opened the door to dedicate the city.

Zhang Chong took millet from the city, opened an arsenal, and recruited 500 poor people from Sheqiu, led by Zhou Fengtong to garrison Sheqiu. Zhang Chong continued to lead the army north along the Wen River, and along the way, all those from Jibei who believed in Taiping Road were

The house was burned down and caves were destroyed, and the whole family went to Zhang Chong.

After Zhang rushed to the territory of Dongping Kingdom, his troops already had more than 10,000 people. For a time, the yellow flag was fluttering and the sky and the earth were changing.

After entering the Dongping Kingdom, the first resistance I encountered was under the city of Zhangxian County. The local Taiping Road rebellion started ten days ago, but it was put down within two days by the powerful family in the county, the Huang family of Zhangxian County.

In recent generations, the Huang family has produced county magistrates worth six hundred kilograms. They are among the most powerful in Zhang County. There are many magistrates in the county under their sect. There are 8,000 households in Zhangcheng, and it is an exaggeration to say that the Huang family owns half of them.

The generation of the Huang family produced a brilliant man named Huang Cen. He studied in the countryside to raise his family after returning from Taixue. He saw the internal troubles in Taiping Road in Dongping Kingdom and had already arranged for his tribe to infiltrate into it.

On April 8, when Taiping Road in Guozhang County of Dongping launched an uprising in accordance with the instructions of Dongjun Buji, they were discovered by the Huang family's children who had mixed in.

Huang Cen united the four powerful men in the county, each sent out their clan troops, and directly massacred the backbone of the Taiping Dao who were about to revolt. They massacred 2,000 believers, men and women, right on the edge of the Wen River. The blood of the patriots stained the Wen River red.

Those who denounce the Taiping Way:

"The moths and thieves are as powerful as jackals and flood the roads. During the day, they wield knives and dance cards to seize people and property on the Wenshui River. Business travelers traveling through the Wenshui waterway were forced by them and dared not go any further. As a result, the leaves in Zhang County were in depression, so the group

Steps to appease the place."

In other words, the reason why Huang Cen killed these people on the Taiping Road was very simple. It was because these people kept killing business travelers on the Wenshui River, causing heavy losses to the Huang family who depended on this waterway for their livelihood. Originally, Huang Cen just regarded these people as ordinary bandits.

But when he heard from the surrounding counties that these bandits wearing yellow scarves were killing officials, he knew that these people were determined to rebel.

So in the past ten days, he organized a network of villages and towns in Zhang County to protect each other and support each other. Then each mutual protection was a self-inspection, and he checked in turn whether there were people who believed in Taiping Dao.

If there are any remnants who rebel against the party, they should be dealt with directly.

This Huang Cen is indeed a capable man. While other counties and counties were still sweeping away the snow in front of each other and only caring about self-protection, this man had already figured out the idea of ​​​​mutual protection. Therefore, in just ten days, the two sides of Taiping Road were destroyed.

Thousands of believers investigated them all, beheaded them by the Wenshui River, and hung the carved heads on wooden sticks along the road.

So when Zhang Chong came along the Wenshui River, what he saw was a scene of human tragedy. The Wenshui River was bleak, but the road was full of heads. Some of the heads looked like they had not been chopped off for a long time, and their original appearance could still be seen.

, that despair and anger have not faded away at all.

The Taishan Army walked on the dusty road, passing through the forest of heads of these comrades, feeling heavy and oppressive.

Finally, Li Damu couldn't stand it anymore. He rushed to Zhang Chong's army from his headquarters and asked for orders:

"He, let me take my troops to find out who killed these comrades in a vendetta. We must make them pay with blood."

Zhang Chong waved his hand to signal Li Damu to calm down, and was about to say that Meng Ju was reporting back with several flags on his back and one person tied up.

It turns out that when Zhang Chong saw this scene, he asked Meng Ju to take someone to find someone who knew the situation and ask about the situation.

As soon as Meng Ju came, he dragged the tied man and said to Zhang Chong:

"This man and his two companions had been spying in the forest, sneaking around. I saw that this was a spy, so I caught him."

Zhang Chong asked the trembling young man warmly:

"What's your name?"

"The villain's name is Liu Liu."

"Why are you spying on our army?"

That made Liu Liuliu keep trembling and didn't rush to speak. He looked at the wolves and tigers around him and knew that this time was going to be difficult.

Zhang Chong took the picture and was afraid of Liu Liu, so he only asked:

"It's not difficult for you. I'll ask a few questions and let you go."

After all, it was the desire to live that prevailed, and Liu Liu asked murmuringly:

"What do you want to ask, General?"

"What happened to these heads?"

Upon hearing that this was just the question, Liu Liu breathed a sigh of relief and replied:

"This is about a group of water bandits that we reunited in Zhang County. Two years ago, the leader of this water bandit was recruited by the county, but the remaining bandits scattered to the countryside and swamps. These people invaded the villages and plundered the settlements.

, roared and gathered in the Wenshui River, plundered the passenger boats, and made the Wenshui waterway blocked."

After hearing this, Zhang Chong didn't say much, but asked:

"Who taught you these words?"

Liu Liuqi was confused. He didn’t care whether he should teach him or not. He replied:

"No one teaches me, it's just like that."

Before Zhang Chong could say anything, Cai Que kicked him and cursed:

"You bitch slave, you are still chattering here. The few words you just used, are they said by a person named Liu Liu like you? Xiao Ju Wenshui, Hot Niang, Nai Gong can't say such elegant words.

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Maybe it was Cai Que's violence, maybe it was his words that were irritating, but Liu Liu blushed a little and didn't dare to speak anymore.

Zhang Chong asked again:

"Did you see these people gathering on the water and looting other people's property?"

Liu Liu shook his head and said that he didn't know either. He was not from this area. Seeing that he had let it slip, Liu Liu confessed:

"General, I am a disciple of the Huang Gui family. I work for my master as a slave, and I am not from this area. Ten days ago, my master invited everyone to have a meal and told everyone that there are bandits gathering at the Wenshui River.

, the waterway is cut off, and the millet harvested later cannot be transported out, then everyone’s work will be in vain. Oh, by the way, the above sentences were also said by the three elders sent by the master, and this is what I learned. Then the master

So I brought people to kill these thieves, and many people died."

Zhang Chong understood and asked:

"Then why are you here?"

"My master asked me to stay here to see if any treacherous relatives or friends come to steal people's heads. If so, let us keep an eye on them."

Zhang Chong suddenly asked:

"Have you ever killed anyone?"

Liu Liu was stunned and shook his head:

"The villain has been weak since he was a child and has never seen blood, so he hasn't killed anyone."

"No blood?"

"Yes, yes, I can't see it, I feel dizzy when I see it."

Zhang Chong said calmly:

"That's good. I'll give you a rope and strangle you to death. Don't tell me, this way of death is quite noble. It is said that emperors die without blood. I didn't expect that although you, Liu Liu, are cheap, you are still very high-spirited.

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To be continued...