Chapter 20: Reaching the End

Tang Zheng was woken up by the noise outside in the morning, when Tang Zheng appeared in the yard after getting dressed, he saw that the yard was full of people, where did so many people come from early in the morning?

When everyone watched Tang Zheng appear in front of everyone, they rushed towards him one after another.

"Tang Gongzi, did you ask someone to let me move to the city? Spring sowing will begin soon, and people are inseparable from the field, Tang Gongzi, if you let us go back, the year's rations will depend on these few days. ”

"Folks, I know that you must have doubts in your hearts when you move to the city, why let everyone move to the city, please believe me, folks, after this half a month, everyone will know, this time has worked hard for everyone." These people are all farmers who live outside the city, this is the spring ploughing soon, but now Tang Zheng asked people to move to Rinshan City, usually they dream of moving to the city to live, but when is it now, it will be spring ploughing soon, if it is delayed, this is the family's rations for a year, this time is not waiting for anyone.

So everyone was in a hurry, and today they hurriedly came to Cheng's house to find Mrs. Cheng to ask for an explanation. These people used to be tenants of the Cheng family, and since the land restructuring of Rinshan City, these people have their own land to cultivate, so now they value the land more important than anyone else.

"Everyone be quiet first, listen to me, folks, I know that spring ploughing is coming soon, everyone is anxious, or this is the case first, this time will be hard for everyone, everyone will go out of the city together in the morning to prepare for spring ploughing, and everyone will be back to the city in the evening." Tang Zheng said to the crowd.

"Tang Gongzi, how much time will everyone waste in this way, and if you don't talk about livestock or something, you won't have the physical strength to plow the land." One of the farmers said.

When Tang Zheng was about to say something, he saw Cheng Mo riding over, and when he saw Tang Zheng, he hurriedly dismounted and ran over, it is forbidden to ride a horse in the city in Rinshan City, but now Cheng Mo is riding over to find Tang Zheng, something big must have happened.

Cheng Mo squeezed through the crowd and came to Tang Zheng's front and whispered to Tang Zheng for a while. Tang Zheng's face changed greatly after hearing this, what should have happened still happened.

Tang Zheng waved his hand to everyone, signaling everyone to be quiet, and the few closest to Tang Zheng saw Tang Zheng's face change after hearing Cheng Mo's words, knowing that something big had happened, and also helped Tang Zheng keep everyone quiet.

"Folks, I just received news that there was a civil unrest in Jizhou, and Zhang Jiao of Taiping Dao gathered hundreds of thousands of believers in Julu to rebel, and now Qing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan, Henan and other eight prefectures have responded. Folks, there are also rebels in Guangyang County, Youzhou, we have rebels, in order not to be affected by the riots, during this time, most of them are also invited to move to the city to live, so as to reduce losses. Grandpa Cheng will explain the specific matters to you, I have other things to arrange, go to the barracks first. After Tang Zheng finished speaking, he led Cheng Mo to the barracks.

"You already know the news, I won't say much about the rest, now discuss our plan, I have only one condition, we must not let the war spread to our soil and even Youbeiping, this is our foundation, a foothold." As soon as Tang Zheng arrived at the barracks, he immediately summoned everyone in the Rinshan barracks to discuss how to deal with the Guangyang riots.

"Tang Gongzi, now we have more than 10,000 troops in full force, and most of them are new soldiers, if we want to hold the mound, it is not much of a problem, but in the entire right Beiping, we are a little stretched." Wu Yifan's Guo Mingda said.

Guo Mingda has always won the trust of Wu Yifan around twenty-five or sixteen, and together with Xu Dayou, he is known as Wu Yifan's left and right King Kong.

"Yesterday, Brother Xu took 800 cavalry to Tuyin County, and now we have about 700 cavalry, except for the trained recruits, and the cavalry has little effect on defending the city."

"I know this, most of our troops are new recruits now, I arranged it like this, the first cavalry we will not move for the time being, the cavalry transferred to the mound yesterday will be temporarily placed in the mound for the time being, and then send a thousand Mo sword soldiers to the mound to moan, our primary purpose is to ensure the safety of the mound and the mountain. There are also 1,000 people left behind in the second mountain, so that we still have about 8,000 men and horses left, and my idea is to use these 8,000 men and horses as a maneuver to ensure the safety of Wuzhong, Junmi, and Xu Wusan. If we can't do anything, we can only ensure the mound and the mountain. Tang Zheng said: "According to speculation, the hope of the rebel army attacking us is much smaller, and our main defense is Wuhuan and Xianbei's robbery. ”

"Wuhuan and Xianbei are not afraid, there is Gongsun Zan on Xianbei's side, the key is that we have not received any orders to fight and send troops privately, if the court quells the rebels in the future, how should we deal with ourselves." At this time, Wu Yifan spoke, he had already turned against the imperial court, and now his affairs were under Tang Zheng's pressure, he was afraid that the imperial court would send a large army to wipe him out when the time came.

"Don't worry about this Brother Wu, I plan to go to Luoyang at the end of this year, as long as we help to quell the rebellion by then, I don't think Brother Wu's matter is a thing, provided that we can defeat the rebels." This Tang Zheng had already had a plan, that is, to wait for the Yellow Turban Rebellion so that he could get a piece of the pie.

In the previous life, the warlords of the Three Kingdoms period all started with the eradication of the Yellow Turbans. Tang Zheng planned to rely on the merit of exterminating thieves to ask the imperial court for the post of Taishou of Youbeiping, so that he would justifiably borrow this position to continue to manage Youbeiping, with the land of the four counties of Youbeiping, Tang Zheng will have the capital to compete for the throne after that, since ancient times, Youzhou has been a fierce pawn, although the land of these four counties is not rich, but Tang Zheng has the confidence to manage him well.

"Since Brother Tang has a plan, I don't have anything else to say, everything is up to Brother Tang's arrangement." Wu Yifan said.

In fact, Tang Zheng is afraid of Wu Yifan's non-cooperation, after all, he has nearly 2,000 cavalry under his command, all of whom are veterans who have been baptized on the battlefield, which is exactly what Tang Zheng needs most.

"Okay, I'll arrange it like this, the eldest brother will take Cheng Hu to lead 1,000 Modao battalion men and horses to garrison the moat, Brother Han will take Cheng Mo to lead 1,000 Modao battalion men and horses to garrison Lishan, and the remaining 3,000 Modao battalion and 5,000 cavalry will be under the unified command of me and Brother Wu, and stay in Rinshan City for the time being, and Zhang Chao will lead your scouts with me." Tang Zheng arranged it, and everyone received their own orders.

The entire Rinyama Castle was in a tense atmosphere, and everyone knew that the war had broken out, and this might be the final calm.

The weapon workshop has continuously transported the weapons and armor produced during this period to the barracks, with Tang Zheng's strong support, and now the production capacity of the weapon workshop has been greatly improved, and now the armor created alone is enough for Tang Zheng to equip another 20,000 people, and there are more than 7,000 weapons and knives, and there are more than 5,000 bows and crossbows, and even 6 bed crossbows have been manufactured.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner. Just after Tang Zheng finished preparing, Zhang Chao brought a very bad news.

"Already figured it out? Who is leading the charge? How many centaurs are there? Tang Zheng asked Zhang Chao. When he first received the news from Zhang Chao, Tang Zheng was still surprised, although he had known it for a long time, but when it really happened, Tang Zheng still felt that he was not prepared enough.

"Hui Gongzi, the general Deng Mao under Huang Long, the commander of the Taiping Dao Qu Shuai of Youzhou Taipingdao, who broke through Jixian County, was a ferocious person, and after breaking through Jixian County, he killed Guo Xun Guo Yuanjun, and guarded Liu Fujun too much, and now Guangyang is in chaos. The rebel army is now divided into two routes, one is led by Cheng Yuanzhi, a general under Huanglong, to Yuyang County, and the other is led by Deng Mao to Beiping. ”

"If you go to investigate again, you must observe carefully to find out how many people the other party has and what the combat strength is."

"Yes, my subordinates will do it." After saying that, Zhang went out of the door. Tang Zheng held his forehead, feeling that his head was too big, how could he feel that it was not the same as in history.

Is it my own mistake, or is there a deviation in history. The advance of the Yellow Turban Rebellion also caught Tang Zheng off guard.

Fortunately, he had been preparing as early as a year ago, although it was unexpected, but fortunately, the general direction was still under Tang Zheng's control.

"Brother Wu, now that the Yellow Turban thieves have broken through Jixian County and killed Thorn Shi and Taishou, the Yellow Turban thieves led by Deng Mao are coming towards our right Beiping, Brother Wu, I want to hear your opinion." Tang Zheng briefly told Wu Yifan about the news that Zhang Chao had discovered, and then continued: "Assassin Shi and Taishou have been killed, this will definitely cause greater panic, and now we will try our best to appease the people in the territory to avoid further expanding the panic, so as not to let people with ulterior motives have an opportunity." Second, we must strengthen the training of new recruits and increase the sense of belonging of the soldiers to Rinzan as much as possible. ”

"Well, this is the best, at the moment we are short of troops, we can only wait and see what happens to the enemy's next move, and then we will make a decision." Wu Yifan said.

"I estimate that if the enemy wants to attack, he will first come from Wuzhong, and once he wants to attack Youbeiping, he will definitely take Wuzhong first. The second is that the county town of Wuzhong is not like Tuyin and Xu Wu, and the border city has thick walls, and the enemy can easily take Wuzhong in one fell swoop. Therefore, I guess that if the enemy wants to march into Youbeiping, he will definitely come from nothing. Tang Zheng said his thoughts.

Wu Yifan nodded, he was very satisfied with Tang Zheng's analysis.

"Then without further ado, we are ready to go to Wuend, there are no decent defenders in Wuend, and the city walls are low, I am afraid that there will be some mistakes if I go late." Tang Zheng said to Wu Yifan, Wu Yifan nodded in recognition of Tang Zheng's statement, and then the two turned around and went their separate ways to prepare for the endless matter.