At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the political situation was unstable, foreign relatives took over the government, eunuchs took power, and the scholars were dictators, and the war against Xiqiang lasted for decades, with huge costs, heavy military service, and serious land annexation, and the people were not able to make a living. At present, the court and the people have long lost their trust in it. Under these circumstances, the great sage and mentor Zhang Jiao founded the Taiping Dao, with "helping the world and saving the people" as the core, uniting people's hearts and establishing prestige among the poor, with hundreds of thousands of believers. Later, Zhang Jiao divided the Taiping Taoist congregation into 36 parties, including the believers of Qing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan; There are more than 10,000 people in the big square and 6 or 7,000 people in the small side; Each side set up a commander under his unified command, following the example of the "Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Uprising" at the end of the Qin Dynasty, preparing for a large-scale uprising, intending to overthrow the Han Dynasty and establish a new world ruled by Taiping Dao.

The great sage and the believers met on the fifth day of the third month of the seventh year of Guanghe, with the slogan "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the year is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious". But it backfired, a month before the uprising, a disciple named Tang Zhou informed, confessed to the inner Ying Ma Yuanyi of the Beijing Division, Ma Yuanyi was torn apart, and the officers and soldiers vigorously arrested and killed the believers who believed in the Taiping Dao, more than 1,000 people, and ordered Jizhou to hunt down Zhang Jiao.

In February of the seventh year of Guanghe, after Ma Yuanyi's car split, Zhang Jiao, the great sage and mentor of Taiping Dao, changed his plan and revolted in advance in Ye County, Jizhou. Because the insurgents tied yellow scarves on their heads, they were called "yellow turbans" or "moth thieves", Zhang Jiao called himself "General Tiangong", and Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were "General Digong" and "General Rengong" respectively.

At this time, the Taiping Taoists in Jizhou gathered for a while, conquered Zhending County with lightning speed, and established an uprising headquarters. Because the Taiping Dao forces have been rebelling for a long time, they have already written the word "Jiazi" on the walls of the state and county governments and the homes of the rich and noble, so the whole process of the uprising was rapid and orderly.

After the Jizhou uprising, in just one month, all the people in the world responded. The Han Dynasty, Hebei, Qing, You, And, Yan, Henan, Jing, Yang, the domain of the eight states was turned upside down, and there were no less than one million people in the immediate time. Among them, in addition to the Taiping Taoists, there were also displaced people who fled due to disasters, people who were forced to pay taxes and had no way out, deserters who could not bear to fight for many years, tenant farmers who lost their land and were oppressed, families of soldiers whose families were ruined due to the conquest of the Xianbei and Qiang people, and even robbers who occupied the mountains and wilderness, and low-level local tyrants who were dissatisfied with the imperial court also joined the anti-people ranks. Within a month, there were wars in 32 counties in eight prefectures across the country, and the Yellow Turban Army was like a bamboo, and the prefectures and counties were lost, and the officials fled, shaking Kyoto.

At this time, Emperor Liu Hong, who was far away in the imperial capital Luoyang, urgently summoned his ministers to discuss how to deal with today's situation.

Some people suggested punishing the traitors, some suggested restricting eunuchs, some suggested that the emperor's private money be used to fill the military funds, some demanded that the stables be opened to distribute imperial horses and soldiers, and some suggested that the performance of officials with more than 2,000 stone should be evaluated...... The ministers were boiling with their chests, and Liu Hong was in a mess at this time, so he had to promise to adopt them all.

After some discussion, with Henan Yin Hejin as the general, Feng Shenhou, led the left and right Yulin, the five battalions of the battalion Shitun Duting, repaired the equipment, and took the town of Jingshi; Zhihan Valley, Taigu, Guangcheng, Yique, Yuyuan, Revolving Gate, Mengjin, Xiaopingjin Eight Pass Commanders. He ordered all prefectures and counties to prepare for battle, train soldiers, count weapons, and gather rebels.

Transferred the Northern Army, the Yulin Army and even the palace guards, and recruited Xiangyong in Sanhe to barely make up 40,000 horses, and appointed the Beidi Taishou Emperor Fu Song, who reported in Beijing, as the left middle general, and Zhu Jun, the counselor doctor, as the right middle lang general, so the two led the division out of the customs to fight against the Yellow Turban Army in the Yingchuan area of Yuzhou. In addition, Shangshu Lu Zhi was appointed as the general of Beizhonglang, and the general of Wuhuan Zhonglang was appointed as the deputy, and the five soldiers of the Northern Army were responsible for the northern front and dealt with Zhang Jiao's main force.

Zhu Jun also recruited Sun Jian of Xiapi as the Sima of the Auxiliary Army, and Jian led the young people in the same township and recruited the soldiers of various merchants and travelers and Huaisi elite soldiers, a total of more than 1,000 people set off to join forces with Zhu Jun's army.

On the day of the official army's expedition, Zhang Mancheng, the commander of the Taiping Dao Canal, attacked and killed Chu Gong, the commander of Nanyang County, and responded to Zhang Jiao in Jizhou.

The Han army did not win in the first battle, in April, Zhu Jun's army was defeated by the Yellow Turban Bocai and retreated, Huangfu Song had to enter the Changshe defense with him, and was besieged by Bocai led a large army, and the Han army was small and demoralized. In addition, the Runan Yellow Turban Army defeated Taishou Zhao Qian in Shaoling, and the Guangyang Yellow Turban Army killed Youzhou Assassin Shi Guo Xun and Taishou Liu Wei, and the Yellow Turban Army showed no signs of defeat due to the actions of the Han Dynasty.

In May, Qu Shuai Bocai besieged the Han army in Changshe. The Han army was small, and everyone in the army was afraid. The Yellow Turban Army camped according to the grass, there would be strong winds, Huangfu Song asked the soldiers to tie up the city, so that the sharp soldiers went out of the encirclement, set fire and shouted, the city raised fire in response, the main force of the Han army came out of the city, rushed to attack the thief array, the thief panicked, and ran.

Coincidentally, he met the 3,000 soldiers and horses of Cao Cao, the cavalry captain who came to support, and Huangfu Song chased the army with Cao Cao and Zhu Jun, and fought with the thieves, attacking from three sides, killing tens of thousands of people, and the Han army won a great victory.

At the end of June, Zhang Mancheng had been in Tunwan for more than 100 days. As a result, Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie took the initiative to attack and beheaded him.

Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, Cao Cao, and Sun Jian took advantage of the victory to enter Runan and Chen Guo Yellow Turbans, chasing the waves to Yu Yangzhai, and hitting Peng Tuo in Xihua, the remaining Yellow Turban troops wanted to flee to Wancheng, but Sun Jian entered the city first, and everyone advanced like ants, breaking the enemy army, and the remaining thieves were scattered, and the three counties were peaceful. Later, Huangfu Song led the army to attack Dongjun, and Zhu Jun's troops attacked Nanyang County.

On the Jizhou side, Beizhonglang broke Zhang Jiao with Lu Zhilian and captured more than 10,000 people, and Zhang Jiao and others had to withdraw their troops to Guangzong. Lu Zhi built blockades, dug trenches, and made ladders, which would allow him to capture the city. Just when the emperor sent the eunuch Zuo Feng to inspect the military situation, someone persuaded Lu Zhi to bribe Zuo Feng, but Lu Zhi refused, so Zuo Feng falsely accused the emperor that Lu Zhi was ineffective in fighting.

Liu Hong was furious and used a prisoner car to recruit Lu Zhi back to Beijing. The Beijing division had to issue an edict and then readjust: Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun immediately led their troops north after the war in Yuzhou and Jingzhou; The Jizhou War temporarily sent Dongzhonglang to replace Dong Zhuo in Longxi.

Just when Dong Zhuo took over from Lu Zhi and prepared to reorganize the army to attack Guangzong City again, next to the woods on a mountain ridge on the outskirts of the city.

More than 20 young Yellow Turbans were on the battlefield, all of them were dressed in the colors of ordinary people, wearing black coarse cloth shorts and shorts, white coarse cloth belts around their waists, white cloth leggings on their legs, and straw sandals on their feet. Because of the cold, their feet were wrapped in footwraps that might have been white, but now they were dirty and unrecognizable. The heads of the people are not the kind of yellow cloth wrapped in the Yellow Turban Army, because everyone has tied a bun on their heads, so a brown coarse cloth belt is tied on the head, and it looks like a mourning team.

A young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes of about 175cm stopped in the middle of the battlefield, his angular face had a roundness unique to young people, and no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like a weak crown. This person's name is Zhang Luo, 20 years old, and he is the "team leader" of 50 soldiers in the Yellow Turban Army. Although the official is small, he is the "Yellow Turban Warrior" - the elite guard battalion under Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Luo walked up to the corpse of a Han soldier, who was probably a petty officer with a standard ring-headed knife at his waist. In the battle that just ended, more than a dozen Han soldiers were killed by his subordinates. When the officer saw Zhang Luo and the others rushing out, he ran away, and was stabbed to death by Zhang Luo, and he didn't even have time to pull out the sheath of the knife.

Because of the fierce exercise, Zhang slightly gasped, it was winter, the temperature was only five or six degrees, and the breath exhaled from his mouth and nose quickly condensed into a cloud of white mist in the cold air. Leaning down, he unstabbed the knife from the corpse. When the knife is pulled out of its sheath, it is nothing unusual to see, this is just a very ordinary standard saber.

"Team rate, should we chase those dogs?"

The person who spoke was Du Yuan, and he was the commander of the army.

This team of Han soldiers was meeting with a group of local Haoqiang soldiers, and they happened to be seen by Zhang Luo, who came out to spy on the military situation. Zhang Luo took his subordinates to set up an ambush, and he himself took half of his brothers to sneak over and attack suddenly. When these dozen officers and soldiers saw more than a dozen Yellow Turban soldiers suddenly rushing out of the woods, they immediately shouted in fright, turned their heads and ran down the mountain. The fleeing Han army crashed into the pocket array under Zhang Luobu, and was completely surrounded, and more than a dozen people were wiped out in a blink of an eye. And the group of strong dogs turned their heads and ran up the mountain, and at this time they were already far away.

After listening to Du Yuan's words, Zhang Luo smiled and said, "Who are you chasing?" This time, we're spying on the military. Hurry up, clean up the battlefield and move on! ”

"Team rate, what to do with the corpses of these Han soldiers?" Another soldier from the Yellow Turban Army next to him asked.

This person's name is Bian Xi, and he is also a military chief.

"Don't stay on this road, just find a ravine where no one is there and throw them in after the search." Zhang Luo replied.

More than 20 soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army searched for the corpses of the Han soldiers, and the money and weapons they carried were taken away, and even the cloth shoes on their feet were dragged off. The Yellow Turban soldiers finally took off the Han army's waist card and belt.

Zhang Luo stood by and watched his comrades search, he originally wanted to see what they had found, but he couldn't help but sigh in his mind: "I'm going to cross over?" ”

More than three months ago, Zhang Luoben was a sergeant secretary of a certain frontier company, and he was ordered to go to the quartermaster department of the regiment headquarters to receive supplies, but the car overturned on the way back, and then he found that he "woke up" and became a 20-year-old "Yellow Turban Army soldier" in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Zhang Luo, who returned to the end of Light and Harmony, sadly found that it is impossible to survive in this troubled world by relying on personal strength alone, and a gang of roving thieves is enough to kill you! This is the era of cannibalism, and your only chance to survive is to take up arms and kill, and only by doing so can you live.

I wanted to join the official army, but when he joined the army, he was dressed in rags, and he was almost treated as a yellow turban thief by the greedy and brutal officer and army generals to receive the reward, but fortunately, he was born in a soldier and had a good foundation in individual combat.

In fact, there were many Han officers in the Yellow Turban camp, so the Yellow Turban Army was modeled after the Han Army.

The worst is the miscellaneous soldiers, their weapons are knives, swords, and guns made of wood or bamboo, and their combat effectiveness is very low.

A little better is the sword and shield hand, the miscellaneous soldiers will automatically turn into a sword and shield hand after killing more than ten officers and soldiers, and the weapons of the sword and shield hand are generally simple knives and wooden shields.

Even better is the pikemen, who are dressed in light armor, which may not be able to block arrows, but it is a status symbol, so every sword and shield bearer sharpens his head and wants to become a pikeman.

Shieldmen and pikemen are the backbone of the Yellow Turbans, and after the cannon fodder is almost depleted, it's time for them to take the action.

There are archers in the more powerful Yellow Turban Army, and the archers are the safest class of troops in the Yellow Turbans, as long as they don't encounter the Han cavalry, they can basically survive.

Finally, there are the elite soldiers - Yellow Turban Lux.

Each Yellow Turban leader selects strong and strong soldiers from the army to form elite soldiers, who are heavily armoured, well-armed, and some are equipped with war horses, and generally play the role of the leader's Praetorian Guard. These elite soldiers will not easily go to battle, and will only participate in the battle under certain circumstances.

In fact, the troubled times of ancient times are far more cruel than imagined, and even if Zhang Luo has two thousand years of wisdom and can predict the future, it is still difficult to get ahead in this hierarchical and barbaric and bloody era.

In Zhang Luo's own words, it is not easy for him to survive until now.

He couldn't forget the scene of the first time he killed the enemy, and the scene where his head fell to the ground spraying blood, and he vomited on the spot.

The search was completed by this time, and the corpse of the Han army was finally left with only a pair of unbelted pants. Their shirts were also stripped off, and it was winter after all, and the Yellow Turban soldiers had an extra coat to help keep them warm.

After packing up the clothes, armor and weapons, more than a dozen Han soldiers did not carry much money, and Zhang Luo registered and asked Liao Chun, the commander in charge of logistics, to put away the belongings.

"Let's go!" Zhang Luo said. The team of twenty-six people shouldered their equipment and continued to move towards the southwest under the leadership of Zhang Luo.

At this time, the Han army camp outside Guangzong City, the Chinese military tent.

Born with a height of one meter seven or eight, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, thick arms and legs, a fat head and big ears, a swarthy face full of horizontal meat, and the curly beard looked very fierce Han Army Coach Dong Zhuo shouted:

"My Liangzhou disciples are fighting against foreign enemies, so they have practiced martial arts for generations, how many people can fight and are used to fighting? But the imperial court does not use it heavily, but it is those useless high-ranking disciples who are promoted, and they are all embroidered pillows for stepping on horses! I have fought in Liangzhou for so many years, and I know the dangers very well. The court is really unclear about the use of horses. ”

"Dong Gong is cautious!" A scribe persuaded.

"Wenyou!" Dong Zhuo began to speak freely, "Think about it, what kind of birdmen are sent to our Liangzhou?" Meng Tuo was assassinated because he gave Zhang Rang a wine bento, what battle will he fight? He got out, got another Liang Hu, played with a pen and didn't work all day long, and said that his calligraphy was wonderful, and I couldn't understand it! Bah! Don't step on the! ”

All the staff members frowned when they heard his vulgar words, but everything was the truth.

Li Ru opened his mouth and said: "I'm afraid our army can't win this battle!" If you lose, you will lose to the Sima of the Northern Army! ”

Dong Zhuo was angry when he heard this: "Those people are all noble children who ride horses, where do you put me, a rough person in Xiliang, in your eyes?" The army relies on orders to prohibit it, but they do not obey my command, how can they not be defeated in their own battles? If I had taken my own soldiers, I would have captured and killed ten horns. ”

"My lord, I have to preserve my strength." Another scribe.

"What's Wenhe's plan?"

Jia Xu thought for a while and said, "I will go to Luoyang to open up the joints of Zhang Rang and others for the lord." ”

.........

It has been six days since the exit of Guangzong City, and more than a dozen Han troops were annihilated in yesterday's encounter, and the joy of this victory did not last long. Before this departure, everyone carried a square marching backpack on their backs, carrying dry rations and their own equipment. After winning the battle, they carried the equipment captured from the Han army on their bodies, which increased everyone's physical exertion, and the clothes on everyone's chest were soaked with sweat.

"Huh... Call... Ha... Call... Team rate, we want to ...... Do you want to take a break? Du Yuan, who was following Zhang Luo, asked. Because he was too tired, Du Yuan's face was a little white. After asking this sentence, Du Yuan had no strength to continue speaking, and only bent over with a spear and panted.

Zhang Luo was fully able to understand Du Yuan's suggestion to rest, and led his team through this mountain where there was no road to be found, and he had long lost count of how many branches that blocked the road, and how many wild grasses and withered shrubs more than half a man tall had been cut along the way. Even Zhang Luo, who was full of physical strength, was covered in sweat at this time, and his feet were swollen and painful.

He looked up and continued to look in front of the impermeable woods for a moment, then turned around and shouted, "Brothers, we also rested in the forest last time, but we couldn't walk after a break. Later, I continued to walk forward and realized that I could go out of the forest only a dozen zhang further. The yin qi in the forest is so heavy, it hurts the body if you rest for a long time. A few times ago, some brothers were caught with the cold, since we have suffered this loss, why should we rest in the forest like before? Now keep walking! ”

Zhang Luo's voice was clear, and he was full of anger when he shouted out such a Jizhou dialect. After shouting, he continued to walk. Seeing that Zhang Luo was so persistent, everyone under his command didn't say much and continued to follow him forward. Some of the brothers in the back were indeed infected with the wind and cold because they had rested in the forest for a long time, and when they heard Zhang Luo say this, they began to march with heavy steps. Someone took the lead, and the whole team moved on. After walking for a while, they finally passed through the forest and came to a gentle hillside clearing. Having an open space means being able to rest, and the brother who has been holding on until now immediately sits limply on the ground.