Chapter Seventy-Five: The Yellow Turban Rises

In the first year of Jianning, that is, in 168 AD, Yu Ji sent Zhang Jiao [Taiping Qing Collar Book]

After Zhang Jiao learned the contents of the book, he began to take his two younger brothers, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, to various places to preach.

Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty died, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty succeeded to the throne, and when the old and the new alternated, it was the darkest period of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In this "unique" background, Zhang Jiao and his two younger brothers went around preaching, waving flags and shouting for their Taiping Dao, and publicizing and recruiting people. They preach virtue and politics, treat the people free of charge, and advocate that everyone is equal, regardless of whether they are high or low.

Under such a momentum full of the aura of benevolence, the number of believers in Taiping Dao has skyrocketed, and there are tens of thousands of people in less than half a year.

Seeing that the situation was good, Zhang Jiao sent eight of his proud disciples to set up branches in various places to preach the Taiping Dao. As a result, in just over ten years, the followers of Taiping Dao have spread to the eight prefectures of Qing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan and Henan, and the number has reached hundreds of thousands.

Yang Ci, who was the Situ of the imperial court at the time, saw the terrible power of Zhang Jiao, so he went to the imperial court and asked for Zhang Jiao to be arrested and brought to justice, so that the momentum of this rebellion could be nip in the bud as soon as possible.

But Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty didn't take these "ordinary people" seriously at all, thinking that Taiping Dao was no threat to the imperial court, so he let it go.

As a result, Zhang Jiao became more unscrupulous, dividing the followers of Taiping Dao into 36 districts according to their regions, with more than 10,000 people in each large party and 6,700 people in each small party.

But in the first month of the first year of Zhongping, that is, in 184 AD, when there were still two months before the uprising, Zhang Jiao's proud disciple, Tang Zhou, a native of Jinan, suddenly rebelled and reported all Zhang Jiao's plans to the imperial court.

Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty finally took it seriously, and the imperial court reacted quickly, arresting Ma Yuanyi, the leader of the Taiping Dao in Luoyang, with lightning speed, and killing him in a car.

At the same time, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty ordered the three dukes and the captain of Sili to search for the Taiping Daoists on a large scale in the Sili area, whether ordinary people or officials in the capital, but anyone who believed in the Taiping Dao would be executed, and it would be useless for anyone to plead.

As a result, the entire Sili area was crowded, and more than 1,000 Taiping Dao believers were killed in just a few days.

Zhang Jiao saw that something was wrong, so he could only change his plan temporarily. He immediately dispatched reliable henchmen to rush to various areas in an eight-hundred-mile rush to various areas under the starry night, and ordered the leaders of all parties to raise matters in advance.

At the same time, in order to distinguish his troops from accidental injury, Zhang Jiao also asked the Taiping Taoists to wear yellow scarves on their heads during the uprising.

Those who loved Zhang Jiao called these Taiping Taoists the Yellow Turban Army, and the imperial court called these Taiping Taoists the Yellow Turban Thieves.

In the first year of Zhongping, in February, Zhang Jiao proclaimed himself the general of Tiangong, named Zhang Bao as the general of the earth, and Zhang Liang as the general of the people, under the slogan of "the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand", and began to lead the Taiping Taoists to resist the rule of the imperial court.

For a time, the believers of the 36 parties of Taiping Dao rose up at the same time, and the whole country was in flames, because the counties and countries of the Central Plains did not have the relationship between the county soldiers, so the Yellow Turban Army was invincible, and it only took a month to occupy many places across the country, which made the Beijing Division shake.

The county military system is the system of the Western Han Dynasty, and the regular army is established according to the size of the county and the importance of the geographical location, and on average, a county should have about 3,000 regular troops. Emperor Guangwu was afraid of the strong military strength of the county soldiers after leveling the world, coupled with the huge cost of the county soldiers, so he abolished the county soldiers system, which made the counties of the country in a state of naked running, and finally, was flattened one after another by the alien races from all directions, Emperor Guangwu realized the importance of the county soldiers, so he re-set the county soldiers in more important places such as the border, but the Central Plains and other counties still did not place the county soldiers, which made the Yellow Turban Army develop very rapidly.

In March, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty appointed his relative He Jin as a general and the president of the defense of the capital.

He Jin, born as a butcher, ascended to heaven because his half-sister was favored by Emperor Ling of Han.

After He Jin ascended to the throne, he immediately led the left and right Yulin troops and the five battalions of tuncai, infantry, Yuecai, Changshui, and Shengsha to be stationed in Duting to guard the safety of Luoyang, the capital of the country. Also around Luoyang, set up Hangu Pass, Taigu Pass, Guangcheng Pass, Yique Pass, Yu (change) Yuan Pass, revolving gate pass, Mengjin Pass, Xiaopingjin Pass and other eight passes, respectively, to protect the periphery of Luoyang, Kyoto, to defend the imperial power.

The eight captains, they are the lieutenant of the middle base, the captain of the tun cavalry, the captain of the infantry, the captain of the Yue cavalry, the captain of Changshui, the captain of the Hu cavalry, the captain of the shooting sound, and the captain of the tiger ben.

The commanders of the eight captains are all high-ranking officials of 2,000 stones, with Cheng and Sima, and each school has a total of 700 people.

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Youzhou, Liaodong County!

In the vast plain, tens of thousands of Han soldiers wearing red and black armor are arraying their troops. And the commander of the Han army sitting in the Chinese army is the world-famous Liaodong Taishou, the general of Zhenbei Li Man!

Li Man sat on the horse, beating his palm rhythmically with the horsewhip in his hand, looking at the other side, he shook his head helplessly, his eyes were full of contempt.

On the opposite side, countless peasants in ragged clothes and yellow scarves were kneeling under the high platform, looking at the gods on the high platform with reverent eyes.

The man of God didn't say anything, but lightly tapped the dew in the bowl with his hand, and then sprinkled it down.

Immediately afterwards, the peasants kneeling in the audience all trembled, and kowtowed to the gods on the stage with tears in their eyes, and roared "Great Sage and Good Teacher" in their mouths while kowtowing.

The god-man standing on the high platform smiled with satisfaction, then raised his hands slightly.

The person standing on the high platform is not with his horns, but with horns.

The Great Virtuous Teacher is the spiritual pillar of the Yellow Turban Army, and it is a god-like existence.

Knock knock knock, drums shook the sky, and those peasant soldiers instantly stood up and turned to face the imperial army led by Li Man.

And at this time, where is the slightest tear in their eyes? Yes, just endless ferocity and perseverance.

"The sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand. The year is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious. The sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand. The year is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious......"

"The slogan is loud, I just don't know how the strength is?" Li Hu wears a tiger head soap gold helmet, wears eight treasure chain armor, and carries an iron lance, and is extremely well-equipped.

Li Manliang worked hard and ordered the craftsman to tailor three sets of equipment for Aiko early on, and gave them to Li Yang, Li Hu and Han Bao respectively.

Li Yang looked sideways at the tiger and leopard who were eager to try, and sighed with emotion: "God helps me not to help the thief, I am worried that I have no actual combat experience, so there are "little monsters" to come to death, help me and wait for the monster to level up, very good, very good!" ”