Chapter 187 Millions of Yellow Turbans Gather in Yanzhou
Chapter 187: Millions of Yellow Turbans gather in Yanzhou
After leaving Zhang Jiao, Nan Hua looked at Hu Zhao doubtfully and asked, "Why didn't you tell him about the girl?"
"Nanhua, Nanhua." Hu Zhao chuckled and said, "You, the Yin and Yang family, control the stars and master the secrets of heaven. But if the secrets of heaven are messed up, will you become an ordinary Taoist priest?"
"You..." Nan Hua was furious and immediately said sarcastically: "You are a powerful Legalist and master of the study of emperors, but you are still being annexed by Confucianism."
"You can't guess the calculations of my Legalist family." Hu Zhao was not angry and said with a smile: "Don't you see? I didn't tell your apprentice because it was unnecessary!"
"Huh?" Nan Hua was stunned and then said, "You mean he knows?"
"He must know more than what we see!" Hu Zhao rolled his eyes and said matter-of-factly: "Don't underestimate your apprentice. You led a group of rogues to capture half of the country in half a year. Zhang Jiao is not as good as we imagined.
It’s that simple.”
"But my silly apprentice was completely unprepared for Dongfang Sheng!"
"The Taiping Guards are all in the hands of Dongfang Sheng. If there is a problem with Dongfang Sheng, can your apprentice safely hand over the Taiping Guards to this adopted daughter?"
"What?" Nan Hua was shocked and said in disbelief: "Taipingwei is actually in her hands? Is he really so confident about Dongfang Sheng?"
The Taiping Guard is the largest and only espionage agency of the Yellow Turban Army. It is responsible for gathering intelligence and infiltrating lurkers. Why was the leader paralyzed? The Taiping Guard contributed indispensably to the success of the Yellow Turban Uprising.
However, Nan Hua was really surprised that such an important department was in the hands of a woman.
"The relationship between their father and daughter is not something we can understand. And as you can see, Dongfang Sheng has not done anything detrimental to the Yellow Turban Army, so there is nothing to worry about? Just trust Brother Zhang Jiao's vision!" "That's all!"
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August of the first year of Zhongping is destined to be an eventful month.
During this month, Qin Hao, the son of Qin Wen, the prefect of Yanmen, set fire to Yanmen Pass and severely wounded the Xiongnu, establishing the greatest self-defense record against foreigners since Huo.
Later, Qin Wen, the prefect of Yanmen, wiped out 130,000 Yellow Turbans in one battle, winning Huangfu Song's second major victory since the Yellow Turban Uprising.
At the same time, Yellow Turban Zhang Jiao was unwilling to be left alone and actually issued an order to forcibly collect food from the aristocratic family.
As soon as this order came out, the whole world was in an uproar.
All the aristocratic families understood that Zhang Jiao finally treated them
The move has been made, but the aristocratic family is not a scumbag, so naturally it will not wait to be slaughtered.
Immediately afterwards, the Han court issued an order that local powerful men could recruit their own troops to fight against the Yellow Turban rebellion.
This edict allowed the Han Dynasty to continue to survive, but it also ruined the future of the Han Dynasty, and the imperial court completely lost local control from then on.
On the day the order was issued, families from ten counties in Jizhou gathered together to resist the rule of the Yellow Turban Army.
Aristocratic families in small counties have thousands of soldiers, and in large counties thousands. Aristocratic families that successfully resisted will directly kill all the Yellow Turban guards and occupy the city, while those that fail will be directly exterminated.
However, even if they temporarily occupy the city, the Yellow Turbans' conquest army will soon attack. Once the aristocratic family goes bankrupt and breaks through the city, the rebel families will directly kill the nine tribes.
Such iron-blooded methods immediately shocked most of the small and medium-sized aristocratic families. The small and medium-sized aristocratic families had small businesses and could not resist the general trend, so they had no choice but to hand over their grain reserves to protect the family. However, this bloody and violent method completely had the opposite effect on the big families. p>
With a big family and a big business, it is impossible to just sit back and give away family property out of thin air to let the Yellow Turban Army grow.
Soon, under the leadership of the Yellow Turbans, there was a wave of resistance from aristocratic families in various places, and the seven states of Guandong were once again at war.
The city that the Yellow Turbans finally captured fell largely due to the aristocratic family's counterattack. Then the Yellow Turbans sent troops to conquer the city, and after conquering the city, they exterminated the clans and confiscated their families.
In just one month, more than two hundred aristocratic families in Kanto were wiped out by the Yellow Turbans.
Of course, not all cities can be recaptured by the Yellow Turbans, such as Runan County where the Yuan family is located in Yuzhou, Donghai County where the Mi family is located in Xuzhou, Hejian County where the Zhen family is located in Jizhou, and Lujiang County where the Lu family is located in Yangzhou.
The Yellow Turbans failed to recapture the Qiao County where Cao's family and Xiahou's family were located in Yanzhou, etc.
It can be said that the relationship between the Yellow Turbans and the aristocratic family has become red-blooded. After this battle, the vitality of the Guandong aristocratic family was greatly damaged.
Although the Yellow Turbans' sphere of influence has shrunk by nearly half, and its main battle force has dropped by nearly 200,000, its war potential has greatly increased.
The food, grass and wealth that the Yellow Turbans took from the noble families were enough to support the "big military training", and the one million Yellow Turban army had been consumed for a year!
The only fly in the ointment is that after the Yellow Turbans and the aristocratic families broke up, the Yellow Turbans not only massacred a large number of aristocratic families, but also massacred a large number of civilians.
The aristocratic family has a rich heritage. In order to resist the Yellow Turbans, they spared no effort. After spending a lot of money, the common people did not care about the poor aristocratic family, but instead helped the aristocratic family fight against the Yellow Turbans.
Under Zhang Jiao's strict order, the Yellow Turbans were strictly prohibited from attacking civilians, but now that these stupid people are coming to kill them, not even Zhang Jiao can restrain them.
Nearly a million people died in the Central Plains at the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, but not even one-tenth of the people were loyal to the family. After this crazy killing, the mentality of the Yellow Turban Army also changed. p>
Why on earth do we have to fight bloody battles for these stupid people?
Are they worthy?
Under the deliberate propaganda of the Han Dynasty, the good reputation of the Yellow Turbans was severely damaged. Many people were suspicious of the Yellow Turban Army. However, the Yellow Turban Army, which had decided to burn everything, no longer cared about this at all.
After Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang had "brought disaster" to most of the aristocratic families in Youzhou and Qingzhou, they each led an army of 150,000 and provisions to meet with Zhang Jiao of Jizhou.
For a time, the power of the Yellow Turbans in Jizhou expanded unprecedentedly. Six hundred and fifty thousand Yellow Turban troops gathered in Guangzong, which frightened Huangfu Song half to death and immediately ordered him to defend to the death.
However, what Zhang Liang didn't know was that as soon as he left, Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan jointly launched a counterattack. At this time, the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang also led their self-recruited local warriors to join Liu Yu's army.
With the help of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who were the bravest of the three armies, Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan's Youzhou coalition fought and won consecutive battles. Their morale was as high as a rainbow, and they finally drove the Yellow Turban forces out of Youzhou bit by bit.
When Zhang Bao arrived before leaving, he arranged for Qingzhou to be secure. Now, except for Kong Rong in Beihai and Song Jiang in Liangshan, who still have the power to resist, Qingzhou has been completely occupied.
Kong Rong was a scholar, but he was too conservative and not aggressive enough. As for Liangshan Song Jiang, after barely resisting Zhang Bao's offensive, Liangshan's strength had been greatly reduced, and how could he still have the courage to dare to pull out the tiger's beard in the Yellow Turban.
After Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang's armies arrived, Zhang Jiao soon personally led an army of 400,000 people south to Yanzhou. Zhang Bao, Zhang Baiqi, Zhang Xianzhong and others were left behind to lead an army of 250,000 people to block Huangfu Song's army.
The main road prevents Huangfu Song's army from leaving Jizhou.
At the same time, Xiang Yan from Yuzhou, Hong Xiuquan from Yangzhou, Xiang Yu from Xuzhou, and other major Yellow Turban commanders all led their troops and rushed towards Yanzhou.
Millions of Yellow Turban troops will gather in Yanzhou!