The Yellow Turban Army in Quyang City also seemed to feel that something was wrong.

Their Digong general, Zhang Bao, used the Dao Talisman a few days ago to call the wind and call the rain, this, the wind is coming, and the rain is also coming. However, they don't want this non-stop north wind and cold wind, and they don't want it to rain a lot of snow all the time.

Originally, the weather was a little cold, and they could barely hold on, in fact, they were in a state of tension all the time, and they didn't feel anything about the cold at that time. But now that the officers and soldiers have ceased fighting, and the weather is getting colder and colder, they can't bear it anymore.

You must know that the clothes on their bodies are thinner than those of the officers and soldiers. The bitter thing is that they are now trapped in this Quyang City, where are there any material supplies? Even if they were asked to rob it in the city, no one would let them rob it.

The people in the city have long been empty, and most of the people who remain in the city are old, weak, women and children, and it is difficult for them to escape. Because they were trapped in the city, they even lacked firewood, so they began to tear down the houses and take out the beams, and cut those beams into firewood to make fires for warmth.

However, earlier, the officers and soldiers of the imperial court attacked the city so quickly and fiercely, and they had already demolished the houses and took the beams to use as the sassal wood for defending the city. So, even the roof beams are now less.

At this time, the Yellow Turban Army in Quyang City, they didn't say that they wanted to grab clothes or anything, even if it was some firewood, they had to grab it.

Without firewood to keep warm, they would probably die of cold.

In the past two days, there have been a number of fights between the Yellow Turban Army and the Yellow Turban Army because they fought for the roof beams of some houses to be used as firewood.

The situation took a turn for the worse, and for a while, it seemed that it was completely unfavorable to the Yellow Turban Army.

In the City Lord's Mansion of Quyang City, Zhang Bao looked depressed, and he was no longer as calm as he was when he saw Zhang Ning a few days ago.

These days, Yang Feng came to see him again, hoping that he could concentrate his forces to break through. Zhang Bao naturally disagreed.

Zhang Bao really knows very well in his heart that his Yellow Turban Army has basically been frightened by the officers and soldiers of the imperial court now, if it is said that the food is abundant and they are defending the dangerous city, then they can still deal with the officers and soldiers of the government and be able to fight each other. But once he left the city and went to the wilderness, his Yellow Turban Army was no match for the officers and soldiers of the imperial court at all.

He could foresee that once he left the city, his military horses would definitely be tantamount to herding sheep, and from then on he would only be chased and killed by the officers and soldiers of the imperial court. It is also conceivable that judging from the situation of the imperial court officers and soldiers in Quyang City, he may not be able to escape the more than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops in Quyang City in the end. It's good to have 1 out of 10 Yellow Turban soldiers escape.

But these one-tenth of the Yellow Turban soldiers did not escape as an organization, but did not know where they had fled. In the future, it is certainly unlikely that they will be able to gather them again.

In other words, once Zhang Bao chooses to break through, then it is equivalent to taking the initiative to give up everything, even if he himself is lucky enough to escape, he will only be alone in the future. As for what Yang Feng told him about rebuilding the base camp of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Bao is not stupid, he knows that even if he escapes and rebuilds the base camp of the Yellow Turban Army, this base camp of the Yellow Turban Army has nothing to do with him, at most he just borrows his name as a general. In the future, he is estimated to be under house arrest as a puppet by Zhang Niujiao, Huang Long and others.

Zhang Bao definitely doesn't want to live such a life, as he said to his niece Zhang Ning. Now Zhang Bao, he is no longer the Zhang Bao of the past. He couldn't go back, and most importantly, his faith collapsed.

It can be said that whether it is Zhang Jiao or them Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang and others, the original intention must be good. Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to work together to get the Taiping Taoism up, and make it huge. If the original intention was not good, it would not have attracted so many people to join their Taiping Dao.

Their original purpose was to overthrow the corrupt Han court, establish their ideal kingdom, and create their ideal peaceful world.

But the development of events is simply beyond their control. Even, with the temporary victory after the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, even Zhang Bao himself could not control his desires and began to fall.

Who doesn't love money? Who doesn't love a woman?

They don't have to do anything, they just need to pick up swords and guns, and they can get a lot of wealth at their fingertips, and they can get beauties that they didn't dare to think of before.

None of them can control their own desires, and in this way, the Yellow Turban Army deviates from their ideals and the direction of their development goals.

Now, Zhang Bao also knows very well that relying on the current Yellow Turban Army and the current so-called Taiping Taoists, it is unlikely that a peaceful world will be established. The so-called peaceful world, it is all fantasy, all a boundless phantom.

In fact, he felt that he was alive and dead. A person whose faith has collapsed is like a walking corpse, except for the moment of pleasure when he scourges women, and he can feel that he is alive, the rest of the time, Zhang Bao is just pretending.

He pretended that he was confident, pretended that he was still a general of the Digong, pretended that he was profound, and pretended that he could also lead the Yellow Turban tribes below to kill a way out. But in fact, from the very beginning, Zhang Bao actually regarded Quyang as his own grave, and he was already bent on death.

Zhang Ning is not calm these days, she really doesn't want to watch her second uncle die so depressed. But there was nothing she could do.

She really wanted to persuade her second uncle to break through and escape, but what Zhang Bao said to her made her not know how to persuade him again.

Sometimes, she even thinks that even if she asks her second uncle to agree to Zhang Niujiao and leave Quyang with them, even if she is under house arrest by them in the future, then she will have a second uncle with blood relatives alive in this world. If a person dies, there is nothing left.

But there are some things that she can't say. It's a dilemma anyway.

These days, she also wanted to talk to her second uncle Zhang Bao many times, but Zhang Bao seemed to deliberately avoid her and did not meet her again.

This time, Zhang Ning sneaked in quietly, so that he could see Zhang Bao, but he saw Zhang Bao so depressed.

"Ning'er, I said that you don't have to worry about the second uncle. Let you stay in those houses arranged for you, so that even if the city is broken, the officers and soldiers of the court may not embarrass you, an ordinary people's girl. Do you have to come to see how your second uncle is doing, so you can rest assured? ”

Zhang Bao heard some slight sounds in the room, and he knew that it was his niece Zhang Ning who was coming.

"Second uncle, why are you doing this? In fact, if you are willing to give up, you will have to give up. If you give up Quyang now, you may not have the opportunity to make a comeback in the future. Zhang Ning stepped out of the shadows.

"Ning'er, the second uncle is really not good. In this life, the second uncle can be regarded as a vigorous life, so let the second uncle die vigorously. Rise like the phoenix? Hehe, the second uncle is old, the second uncle has followed your father and struggled for more than ten or twenty years, which finally established the Taiping Road, and finally developed to such a scale, so that he could give an order, and the yellow turbans in the world rose together. You said, now that your father and third brother are gone, can I make a comeback with Zhang Bao? It really doesn't work anymore. Zhang Bao held the wine jar in one hand and the sword in the other, and said with great loss while pouring wine.

"Second uncle!"

"Say no more." Zhang Bao interrupted Zhang Ning's speech sharply, and gasped: "Everything that should be explained has been given to you." Do you have to see with your own eyes how your second uncle died to be happy? In the future, you have to be good and don't worry. The dowry left to you by the second uncle can ensure that you will be rich and prosperous for the rest of your life. Let's go, now your second uncle is already a place of right and wrong, these days, only Yang Feng came to see your second uncle, Zhang Niujiao and they are still hiding in the shadows and not showing up. I guess they want to seize the Taiping Sutra. You weren't supposed to be here in the first place. Be careful when you leave, and don't give away your treasures. ”

Zhang Ning couldn't help but shed two lines of tears, she once again deeply felt the kind of death in the second uncle's heart, she really didn't know how to save the second uncle from death.

"General Digong! The bitter cockroach Qu Shuai asks to see! ”

"Let him wait for General Ben in the front hall!"

At this time, outside Zhang Bao's dormitory, there was a sudden report.

Zhang Bao responded loudly.

"Go, go, now the army is starting to be a little chaotic, and from now on, it's hard to say what happened. Go and stay in the houses I have arranged for you. Hide well, even if someone wants to demolish the house, you don't show up. Ning'er, in this world, the second uncle is the only one of your relatives left. No matter what, the second uncle doesn't want you to have anything to do. There are some things that are our men's business and have nothing to do with you as a woman. Listen to the second uncle, leave the second uncle alone. Come on. ”

Zhang Bao lowered his voice and said to Zhang Ning.

"Are they going to act?"

"I don't know, anyway, they're definitely going to do something in the dark. It's just that they want to get something out of me, or they want to take me captive. Don't say it, I won't be at ease if you stay at this moment, second uncle, go quickly. Zhang Bao waved his hand and asked Zhang Ning to leave quickly.

"Alas...... Second Uncle...... Take care of you, take care! ”

Zhang Ning knew that unless he forcibly stayed by Zhang Bao's side now and accompanied her to face everything. Otherwise, this should be the last time she and her second uncle meet. This farewell is estimated to be goodbye.

"Take care!"

Zhang Bao also took a deep look at Zhang Ning, then put down the wine jar, walked to a large bronze mirror, and combed his hair.

Zhang Ning hid in the dark, and after watching her second uncle Zhang Bao open the door and go out, she looked around here again, and then reluctantly left quietly.

This time Zhang Ning and Zhang Bao met, it was indeed the last time they met, and after that, it was goodbye.

And this night, Quyang City was really restless.

The bitter cockroach has decided to break through.

But he still had some conscience, and he didn't act privately, but came to explain the situation to Zhang Bao. In addition, there are other things that I also told Zhang Bao.

It turned out that Zhang Niujiao and others had privately contacted some of the generals in Zhang Bao's army these days, and it was estimated that they were also persuading those generals to break through.

The dignified general is here, and those Yellow Turban Qu Marshals did not come to visit, but made moves in secret to shake Zhang Bao's military heart, which in itself is not authentic.

However, after Zhang Bao heard this, he was not angry. Perhaps, Zhang Bao also knows very well that his Yellow Turban Army will have to be dissipated sooner or later.

Because of the cold, because of hunger, anyway, now he is almost to the point of exhaustion.

Now, where did he go to get food and clothing?

As the supreme leader of this Yellow Turban Army, he failed to solve these problems for the sergeants below, so it is no wonder that they chose to live on trees.

Of course, now that they are trapped in Quyang City, whoever they choose to obey now has the same orders, and they are all dead.

"Let them be, if they can have a way to live with Zhang Niujiao, let them be. Kuqu Shuai, you can tell this general openly and honestly, which also shows that Ku Qu Shuai is a kind person. In that case, well, then General Ben will fulfill you. When you broke through the siege, General Ben led his army to kill from another direction under the banner. In this way, attract the attention of officers and soldiers. So that you may have less resistance and hopefully run out with more brothers. ”

"General Digong ......"

The bitter cockroach burst into tears.

"Okay, I want our Taiping Road Yellow Turban Army to be so powerful, but now we have ended up in such a situation, this is actually not to blame. Everything is our own fault. Facts have also proved some things, our Taiping Dao and the Yellow Turban Army cannot win the world. So...... Brother Bitter Cockroach, well, General Ben called you Brother, this dare to be regarded as a dying person's deathbed confession, or advice, to Brother Bittercock on your deathbed. ”

"Please show the general of the earth!"

The cockroach knelt down and prostrate.

"If Marshal Bitter Qu can escape from the siege of officers and soldiers, I hope that Bitter Cockroach Commander will not forget the teachings of our Taiping Dao. Even if the Yellow Turban Army is reorganized, it must remember the lessons of this defeat, and it cannot be like the original and just rely on robbery to kill. In particular, remember that there can be no more harm to the people. Actually, we are all from ordinary people. Our original intention was to create a peaceful world where all the poor people could live in peace. But what did we Yellow Turbans do? ”

"Second, my eldest brother, General Tiangong, has a daughter, whom you have also seen, Zhang Ning. If you touch her, be sure to keep her safe. ”

"Yes! The subordinates kept in mind the teachings of the general of the earth. Zhang Ning is the saint daughter of our Taiping Dao, even if General Digong doesn't explain, if Ku knows where she is, he will definitely go to protect her. ”

"Good! With your promise, I, Zhang Bao, will be at ease. ”

Zhang Bao saw that the bitter cocklea didn't seem to be a lie, but he was also a little relieved.

"So when are you going to break through? Once the time was set, I told General Ben. Naturally, General Ben will cooperate with you to break through. ”

"Without further ado, they intend to start breaking through before dawn tomorrow morning."

"What? In such a hurry? Tomorrow morning? It's already the middle of the night. ”

Zhang Bao was stunned, he didn't expect them to be so anxious.