About twenty or thirty miles east of the old city of Binh Duong, there is a valley. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the valley is not very large, there were many farmers who secretly came here to cultivate crops in the past.

Because this valley was originally considered a borderland.

Borderlands means no taxes......

It's not easy to be a farmer these days, especially under the double whammy of local aborigines and nomads.

Although the state tax has been nailed down, there has been no change over the years, but there are too many other taxes that need to be paid, and the tax on people who have to be calculated from birth is also called mouth money, as well as the conscription fee, these two large items have already burdened ordinary peasant households quite a lot, and there are also miscellaneous taxes on various industrial and commercial and mountain wood products......

In order to restrict the unauthorized migration of peasant households, and also to curb commerce, in the process of the circulation of many commodities, the taxes are extremely serious, and there are many items, to the point of outrageousness, there are taxes such as money, rent, calculation, city rent, customs tax, six animal tax, wine tax, etc., and what is even more unbearable is that the emperor often asks all localities to carry out the so-called "contributions", that is, the various material goods provided to the central government by the local taishou and vassal states in the form of tribute.

Of course, all these mouths, whether it is the autumn endowment, or even those various taxes with various names, will not be taken out by those who are officials, or those who are powerful in the countryside......

Therefore, there are many farmers, maybe it is because God has one less rain, or one more rain, maybe they can't help but buy a new clothes after going to the city for an extra trip, or they may have a headache and brain fever and can't work in the field for a few days, resulting in a worse harvest in the end, and then they can't make up the taxes, borrow and pay, and then get through with good luck, and if they are unlucky, they can't pay the interest......

In the end, a vicious circle leads to the destruction of the family.

Therefore, many farmers, either voluntarily or forced, came to this valley and began to live here secretly, until one day, perhaps the government discovered this place, or perhaps the remnants of the Yellow Turban also came to this place, anyway, Guo Da, the commander of the White Wave Army at that time, finally revolted here......

"When Bai Bo raised his army, he was known as 100,000 people." Fei Qian looked at this valley and said, "It is within this valley that the army was raised. ”

The tone was flat, like the number 100,000, no different from ten or twenty......

But it startled the horses on the side,

"Fei Envoy, is this true?"

100,000, he has never even seen tens of thousands of soldiers since he was a child, and 100,000 is simply a number beyond his imagination.

Huang Cheng had experienced the Yellow Turban in Jingxiang, so he also knew that the moisture in the number of the Yellow Turban Army was extremely powerful, so he smiled and said: "It's all some imaginary numbers, you look at this valley, how big it is, there must really be 100,000 people, I'm afraid that if it's not for people to crowd people, the valley will be filled!" ”

Fei Qian nodded, and the horse slowly walked towards the valley.

After the uprising of the White Wave Army, the White Wave Fortress was built here, that is, a stockade piled with stones on the edge of the cliff......

This actually shows that the water of the Baibo Army at that time, if there were really 100,000 soldiers, and what kind of stockade was built, it could sweep the entire Hedong.

The number of 100,000 soldiers may be Guo Da who said it to scare people in order to bluff, or maybe these scholars in Hedong pushed the boat down the river to use it as a shield......

With bandits, it is natural to increase the number of soldiers, the county soldiers to add, the countryside heroes and their own private guards, etc., can naturally also add a plus, for the farmers in the countryside can also be said to have a yellow scarf, the natural protection fee still has to be charged more, otherwise how to raise soldiers to protect you?

Then the tax that originally needed to be handed over to the state or something, just said that he wanted to pay it, but there were 100,000 yellow turban thieves outside the city! I can't send it out!

That's 100,000 soldiers!

Hehe.

As he walked, Fei Qian looked at the abandoned Baibo Fortress, the birthplace of the Baibo Army, which was later surrounded and suppressed, but at that time the Baibo Army had expanded, swept through the surrounding countryside, and fled into the Luliang Mountains......

Bai Bo Fortress is in the center of the valley, and the distance between the three exits of the valley is not too much, although it has been destroyed by the encircled county soldiers, but the overall wreckage is still left.

From the eastern summit there is a small stream, not very large, which flows down the mountain, winds through the valley, and then flows southwest......

"So, the White Wave Thieves don't have much strength now?" Ma Yue followed behind and asked.

Fei Qian looked left and right at the cultivated land that had been reclaimed in the middle of this valley, and now it was barren again, and couldn't help but shake his head slightly, and said: "I don't know exactly how many people there are in Baibo now, but it's about 30,000 to 50,000 people......

"Thirty, fifty thousand?" Ma Yue frowned, thirty or fifty thousand troops are not too little!

Fei Qian looked at Ma Yue and guessed that he might not have made a clear distinction between the battle structure of the Yellow Turban Thieves and the battle structure of the Hu people, after all, Ma Yue had always been in Shangjun, and later followed Ma Yan to Hedong, so he might not be able to know the difference in the number of the Yellow Turban Army and the Hu Army.

Therefore, Fei Qian turned his head and said to Huang Cheng: "Shuye, tell him...... "After all, Huang Cheng has experienced the beginning of the Yellow Turban, and he has also fought against the Yellow Turban, relatively speaking, at least he knows more than Ma Yue.

Huang Cheng smiled and nodded, then pulled Ma Yue and said: "In fact, the number of yellow turban thieves is not the same as that of the Hu people, if the Hu people are in a hurry, even Hu girls and children can get on the horse and shoot arrows, but the yellow turban thieves are different, dragging the family with their mouths, generally speaking, it is very good to have one-third of them, and most of these one-third men have never held swords and guns, and they only rely on a breath of blood to go into battle, and they don't know what to do with the battle formation......"

Huang Cheng seemed to remember something, smiled and put it away, and his voice was a little low: "...... At that time, when the three brothers of the Zhang family, the leader of the Yellow Turban Thieves, were still there, those Yellow Turban thieves were really not afraid of death, even if they were unarmed, they had to pounce up, grab them with their hands, and bite with their teeth...... However, later, as soon as the three brothers of the Zhang family died, the Yellow Turban no longer had the blood and courage it had before, and dozens of hundreds of county soldiers could run all over the ground with thousands of Yellow Turban thieves......"

“…… Therefore, the large number of Yellow Turban Thieves in the early stage is actually nothing, but if they fight to the back, most of those who remain are strong men, and they have not died after many battles, so it is called trouble...... The White Wave Thief has gone through one or two major battles now, and there is still some gap compared to the county soldiers......"

Ma Yue sighed, only then did he know that he was thinking about it, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

Fei Qian had already inspected the entire valley at this time, pondered for a while, called Ma Yue, and said, "Zidu, have you ever seen how the Hu people shepherd sheep?" ”

Ma Yue nodded and said, "If you have seen it, you will give orders by driving and shouting, and encircle the sheep to prevent them from scattering." ”

"Good! Tomorrow you will take a hundred and state horses and four hundred Hu horses to hide here......" Fei Qian let the horse get closer and closer, and explained, "...... Maybe Zidu will be like 100,000 soldiers by then! ”