If you can pull Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao over, you will get the support of the entire Taiping Dao, even if you can't directly subdue Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao, you can collect the remnants of the yellow scarf, it is also a not weak force, and this step will have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort anyway.

After the divine doctor left, Zhang Jiao studied Lu Bu's ideological class textbooks for a few days, and finally said to Zhang Bao: "Let's use Taiping Tao as the belief to develop the church, but we still fall behind, Lu Bu's "the world is the same, the world is for the public" is the life that the people of the world really yearn for. ”

"And he compiled this idea into a teaching material, taught it in the army, and then spread it to the people little by little, whether it is the ideological realm, as well as the means of dissemination, it is far better than us, if I was born ten or twenty years later, I am afraid I will be a believer of Lu Bu."

"Big brother, there is another matter, Bu Si sent a messenger again, saying that he took a battle with Huangfu Song, and was copied by the enemy, and he was defeated and lost, please send reinforcements, do you think we will save or not?"

Zhang Jiao thought for a while, "Dongjun can't hold it, so send someone to pick them up in Wei County, and let them abandon Dongjun and move closer to us." ”

"Yes, I'll let Zhou Cang bring 30,000 soldiers and horses to meet them."

In the middle of July 184 AD, Bu Si, Zhang Bo, and Liang Zhongning, the Yellow Turban Qu Marshals of Dongjun, led their troops to fight a fierce battle with the central officers and troops of Huangfu Song's department who went north.

Just when the attention of the Yellow Turban Army was focused on the frontal attack of the official army, Lu Zhi and Cao Cao, who had been quietly reinstated, led the army to outflank Bu Si and others, and took away the grain and grass of the Yellow Turban Army, which shook the morale of the army, and was killed and defeated.

On the way to retreat, Zhang Bo and Liang Zhongning were attacked by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry led by Dong Zhuo and both were killed. Only Bu Si fled to Wei County with less than 20,000 men, and was rescued by Zhou Cang, who was sent by Zhang Bao to meet him, and withdrew to Guangzong together.

Seeing Zhang Jiao, Bu Si felt guilty and confessed his past to Zhang Jiao, Zhang Jiao was not angry with him, but just comforted him with kind words, and asked him to lead the deployment to be stationed outside Guangzong City, and they were horns for each other.

At the end of July, all the main forces of the central official army of the northern front led by Huangfu Song, Lu Zhi, Cao Cao, and Dong Zhuo began to gradually advance to Guangzong, and the recovered prefectures and counties also sent county soldiers and volunteers to help.

Lu Zhi's release was because Huangfu Song pushed all his military exploits to Lu Zhi, which fished him out.

And Dong Zhuo's comeback is completely the credit of the general He Jin, He Jin regards Dong Zhuo as a confidant, Dong Zhuo also wants He Jin to swear allegiance, and he is about to enter the final stage of exterminating the Yellow Turban rebellion, so he must hurry down the mountain to pick peaches?

Therefore, Huangfu Song, Lu Zhi, Cao Cao and others are extremely unwilling to see Dong Zhuo, but because of the general's face, there is no way.

In August, Huangfu Song's army finally arrived on the outskirts of Guangzong, and Zhang Jiao's main force of the Yellow Turbans fought several battles with Huangfu Song, but they did not take any advantage.

Huangfu Song's subordinates currently have more than 100,000 Han troops, half of which are the elite of the central official army, and half are county soldiers and volunteers.

In addition, the Yellow Turban Army in Youzhou has been completely pacified, and Gongsun Zhan, Liu Bei and other troops have also gone south to Jizhou, walking with the Bingzhou Army, approaching step by step from the north of Guangzong.

As early as He Jin's military order and the urging of Emperor Ling of Han's holy decree, Lu Bu's Bingzhou army also set out from Gall Tao and went south all the way.

Xu Huang took Guan Hai's Rong Second Brigade and Zhang He's First Cavalry Brigade to form a southbound army, and there was a lot of fanfare everywhere he passed, lest others not know that the Bingzhou army was coming, in fact, this was also a little tacit understanding with the Yellow Turban Army, and Zhang Bao could concentrate on dealing with Huangfu Song's army.

At that time, the Yellow Turban Army still had an advantage in numbers, Zhang Jiao's main force Yellow Turban had 150,000 people, Bu Si had 30,000 people, Zhang Mancheng had the most, with 200,000 people, and a total of 100,000 Si.

However, this time the Han army is no longer as disparity in strength as before, Huangfu Song has 130,000 Han troops under his command, including 70,000 central official troops, 60,000 county soldiers and volunteers, and 10,000 state troops, 10,000 Han troops of Youzhou Gongsun Zhan, and Liu Bei's 5,000 volunteers, close to a ratio of one to two.

Huang Fu Song and Lu Zhi were still not in a hurry to win this time, but adopted a steady and steady strategy.

There are few Han soldiers and many Yellow Turban people, but the territory controlled by the Han army is vast, from Guangzong to Luoyang, Dongjun, Chenliu, and Hanoi are all in the hands of the Han army, and the supply of grain and grass is continuously transported to the front line, while the Yellow Turban army can only be trapped in one place, with more people and less food, and soon falls into a food shortage, eager to fight.

Huangfu Song, Lu Zhi and others took advantage of the Yellow Turban Army's eagerness to fight and the dilemma of lack of food to set a trap to deceive the Yellow Turban Army.

In mid-August, Bu Si led the army to grab grain, and fell into an ambush set by Huangfu Song, Lu Zhi, Cao Cao, and Dong Zhuo surrounded him on all sides, and Bu Si was completely annihilated by 30,000 people, and Bu Si was captured alive and sent to Luoyang, where the car was split in the city.

The Han army pursued the victory and forced to the city of Guangzong, Zhang Jiao's entire army was forced to shrink into the city, and Zhang Mancheng's army was stationed at the boundary bridge, echoing Zhang Jiao from afar.

Liu Bei led his troops to be greedy for merit, and was ambushed by the tiger-faced military division, and almost died, thanks to his two righteous brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who were both generals of ten thousand enemies, and were stunned to break through the siege and escape with their lives, and there were only more than 1,000 people left in 5,000 people, so they had to defect to their mentor Lu Zhi.

Seeing Liu Bei's fiasco, Gongsun Zhan didn't dare to act rashly, and followed Xu Huang to the death, although the Bingzhou army also had only 10,000 people, it could bring him a sense of security.

The 10,000 Youzhou troops he brought this time, in addition to the 5,000 Wuhuan cavalry, there are also 5,000 new troops, all of which were trained by instructors in Bingzhou, and their combat effectiveness is tenacious, and they have withstood the test in several battles to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army from all walks of life in Youzhou.

An atmosphere of despair spread throughout the city of Gwangjong, and the people of the Yellow Turban Army were panicked.

Zhang Jiao called Zhang Bao into the study, leaving only the two brothers to sit opposite each other.

"Second brother, my deadline is approaching, I can get more than these three months, I am already satisfied, now the situation is clear, maybe it is because the number of big men is not exhausted, maybe it is because my Taiping Road has not arrived, in short, this time the Jiazi Incident is probably going to fail."

Seeing what Zhang Bao was about to say, Zhang Jiao waved his hand, "However, it doesn't matter, failure will be regarded as paying tuition once, as long as the Taiping Road is still there, the spirit of praying for peace in the world will not die, and the temporary dormancy will explode more violently in the future." ”

"I have already arranged the affairs of the sect, and those who need to lurk have all been dispersed, and the Taiping Dao will continue to be passed on in the name of other sects in the future." Speaking of this, Zhang Jiao looked at Zhang Bao with deep brotherhood.

"Second brother, I hope that you and Man Cheng, Tang Zhou and they will leave Guangzong together, that tiger-faced military master is right, stay away from Jizhou and go to Qingxu Erzhou to develop, the space is broader, and it is not limited to the city, the mountains and rural areas are actually more suitable for our righteous army."

"Big brother, I can trust Man Cheng and Tang Zhou, but I always feel that the tiger-faced man is mysterious and secretive, and he has not changed his kindness."

Zhang Jiao nodded, "Second brother's worries are not wrong, that tiger-faced man is not simple, I even suspect that he is Lu Bu's person, but as long as he doesn't do anything sorry for the Yellow Turban Army and sorry for the Taiping Dao, what about cooperation?" ”

These days, I have been studying Lu Bu's booklet, "The world is the same, the world is for the public" The ideological realm is very high, and I also believe that the beautiful society depicted will eventually be realized, maybe, maybe it is like-minded with us. ”

"After my death, you will take over the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Taiping Dao, and after you, you can pass on to Zhang Mancheng and Tang Zhou. You can secretly observe Lu Bu, if he really does what he propagandizes, we will be under his account in the future. ”

"But if he is treacherous, says one thing, and does another, then he is the same mortal enemy of us as the Han court!" Zhang Bao promised, keep it in mind.

(End of chapter)