After Zhao Xun's personal interrogation, the commander of the Black Turban Army captured this time was Wen Fang, the general of the mutiny of Sun Guozhen's Eastern Army, and had previously been promoted to the right governor, and the mystery of Sun Guozhen's Eastern Army mutiny was also completely unveiled because of Wen Fang's capture.

According to Wen Fang's confession, two years before the mutiny of the Zhendong Army, someone had secretly contacted them, claiming to be a holy envoy sent by the sky, asking Wen Fang to follow the will of heaven to raise troops to exterminate the tyrant of the world, and threw a broken silver coin into a bowl filled with clear water and swore that if it was the will of the sky, this broken silver coin would definitely be taken away by heaven.

Wen Fang didn't think so, just thought that it was a small person who committed a rebellion, and rebelled under the pretense of heaven's will, just when he was about to take it down by the future, the broken silver in the bowl was suddenly gone, Wen Fang and the others were taken aback, and they really thought that the people who came had used immortal magic to make Cangtian take back the broken silver bill.

Of course, this so-called immortal magic technique alone could not make Wen Fang willingly submit.

In order to further envelop Wen Fang, he took out ten "real gold" in one go, and told Wen Fang that he could go to the designated place to spend with this real gold, especially in elegant places such as brothels, music houses, etc., and said that the heavens gave the favor of the converts, as long as Wen Fang accepted their control, he could get all the glory of the world.

In addition to Wen Fang, seven or eight out of ten generals below the governor of the Zhendong Army at that time were deceived by the holy envoys sent by the Black Turban Army with immortal and magical arts in various names, and then corroded and controlled people's hearts with women's sex, gold and silver, and then further fell into the clutches of the Black Turban Army.

Most of the mutinous armies in various places that rose up this time had hidden stakes earlier, and the rest were more or less bewitched by immortal and divine arts, and defected to the Black Turban Army under coercion. As for the common people, it will be easier, as long as someone takes the lead in rebellion, the common people will not survive, and there will only be one way to rebel.

This time, there were as many as 85,000 Black Turban troops stationed in Ruitian, of which 50,000 were from Sun Guo, 15,000 were from Xianguo, and the rest came from all over the Central Plains.

But all the persecution and killing of the powerful and nobles, without exception, were blocked by the slave army.

The deep-seated reason is that the owner of the slave is nothing more than the power class in the world, and the slave owner's wife and daughter are also slaves, and the slave owner has legal physical exploitation, which further aggravates the slave's will to resist, and the slave owner is the first to kill in the rebellion.

The reason why the Black Turban Army grew rapidly was that the largest source of soldiers was slaves, and most of them came from slaves. Slaves are not registered as slaves, and previously the number of slaves in various countries was not counted in the household register.

According to Wen Fang, only the cities that the Black Turban Army has conquered have liberated as many as one million slaves, lowly people, and prisoners, and the two counties of Wanchuan and Pengyuan in Sun Kingdom have two or three hundred thousand slaves, lowly people, and prisoners.

The vast majority of the slaves in the northwest of Zhiguo were prisoners of war from the Xian State and the Sun State who were captured after the war with the Zhiguo over the years. After the liberation of the Black Turban Army, eight or nine times out of ten were incorporated into the Black Turban Army to fight everywhere.

Previously, it was estimated that the total strength of the Black Turban Army should be around 800,000, and the population should be 5 or 6 million, but now the situation is actually more severe than expected.

Sun was a large country, with a land area comparable to that of Jin, but it had a population of more than 40 million, a standing garrison of 500,000, and a standing army of 800,000 at its peak.

After the loss of Pengyuan County, Sun Guo lost 100,000 soldiers, and Wanchuan County lost another 50,000 soldiers. In the first battle of Shangguan County, Sun Guo mobilized an army of 200,000 and was defeated by the Black Turban Army head-on, and the Black Turban Army instead had Sun Guo surrender nearly 100,000 troops.

Later, he went south to Zhiguo, went north to Changsun, and mutined nearly 100,000 troops one after another, and after entering Xianguo, Chuanyangguan mutinied, Mandala mutiny, and the Black Turban Army got nearly 70,000 Xian army, county soldiers, and righteous army, that is, there were 400,000 regular troops alone.

In addition, there were 200,000 million slaves who were a million slaves, and the rebellious people, as well as the so-called rebel army from all over the world, totaled more than 500,000, and in less than half a year, the total strength of the Black Turban Army swelled to 1.1 million, with a population of nearly 9 million, creating an unprecedented army in the 2,400-year history of the Central Plains since the founding of the Hai Dynasty.

The interrogation of Wen Fang continued until the second half of the year, and many previously unknown inside stories were restored.

The Black Turban Army's uprising can be traced back to two years ago, or even earlier, their logistics supply According to Wen Fang himself, in addition to clothing and herbs, the supply of food, grass, and ordnance is endless, and the Black Turban Army in the rear has even begun to equip the Black Turban Army with armor and ordnance built by the Black Turban Army itself.

The purpose of this attack on Chenling was to occupy the Dujun Plain, control the vast plain of Beihai, the largest granary in the Central Plains, and seek to form a situation with Beihai as its back, its west as its name as its south, Zhiguo in the south, and Jin as its east.

When asked about the commander of the Black Turban Army, King Shengyan, Wen Fang, as the commander of ten thousand masters, had never seen the face of King Shengyan.

The military and political structure within the Black Turban Army is extremely simple, the commander obeys the orders of the king, and the commander chooses the main general among the commanders, and the king wears a mask on weekdays, so few people have really seen the king of Shengyan.

In addition to the Shengyan Heavenly King, the Black Turban Army also has the Eleventh Heavenly King and the Thirty-six Heavenly Masters, as well as the High Priest, who all wear masks on weekdays, and this snowfall is conveyed by the Shengyan Heavenly King to the commanders of the various armies on the 20th before the military opportunity, to prepare for the cold, once the Yongxing River is frozen, the entire army and battalion will cross the Yongxing River and annihilate the Xian Army.

Wen Fang didn't believe it at first, he was mostly suspicious of the immortal skills of the Black Turban Army, where could it snow on such a hot day, not to mention that Xianguo is located in the North Sea, it has never rained in history, and there are not many people who believe in it, especially Xianguo people, who don't believe in snow in July.

Until five days ago, the Heavenly Master of the army set up an altar in the camp of the Chinese army, and swore in the name of the sky that he would curse the Xian army with the divine snow in five days.

Who would have expected that the heavy snow would fall for an hour, and suddenly the rainstorm would be like a pour, and the cotton clothes would be soaked in the rain and cold and biting, and they did not expect that the Xian army would force the Yongxing River in Wuping to attack head-on, and the result was that the frozen black turban army was crushed under a blow.

By the next day, Wen Fang knew that he was cornered, and he explained seven or eight times out of ten, all of which were related to the battles of the Black Turban Army since the uprising and the so-called magic and demon methods.

In the battle of Luji on the Mageng River, Wen Fang rushed to the battlefield from Sun Guo, and when he arrived at the Mageng River, he only participated in the outer encirclement and did not enter the battle.

At ten o'clock in the morning, all the generals were red-eyed, Wen Fang stood with a dead face, and continued to tell the truth in front of everyone's eyes:

"General Lu Ji was defeated, and the last general only knew a little. On the day of the decisive battle, General Lü Ji was trapped in the Mageng River, and the last general led his army to wait for battle ten miles on the east flank, and heard several loud noises in the direction of Lü Ji's army in the distance.

About a moment later, Lu Ji's army suddenly caught fire, and then it collapsed, surrounded by the black turban army on all sides and annihilated, as for what the Heavenly Master did, only a few Heavenly Kings and Heavenly Masters knew the inside story, and I and the Commander had no idea about it. ”

At this time, Zhao Xun clenched his fists, his face was uncertain and undulating with anger, at this moment he may really want to kill the Heavenly Master of the Black Turban Army with one sword, avenge Lu Ji and Xu Song's second general. He suppressed his anger and asked in a deep voice:

"Ben Shuai asks you again, what are you going to do with the black and purple stone pile in the military warehouse."

"Back to Zhao Shuai, it is a holy relic that King Shengyan rewards meritorious generals, but whenever you encounter the city gate, you can burn the city gate by setting fire to this stone."

"Where did that come from?"

"As far as the last general knows, it should be given by the heavenly master, and as for how to get it, the last general really doesn't know."

The position of the Heavenly Master in the Black Turban Army is above that of the Twelve Heavenly Kings, and the Twelve Heavenly Kings are considered to be the commanders of the Black Turban Army, and the monarch's father Wan Ne is their leader, and the authority of the Heavenly Master is often above the Heavenly King who commands the army to fight.

On the eve of every war, the Black Turban Army Heavenly Master had to set up an altar to use the so-called "immortal arts" to boost morale, and the vast majority of the Black Turban Army generals were illiterate peasants, who were convinced of the Heavenly Master's immortal skills, and often had a role that could not be underestimated in the development of the war situation.

It's just that I don't know how the Heavenly Master of the Black Turban Army will explain to the followers of the Black Turban Army that God has suddenly changed his hexagram after the failure to borrow snow from the sky this time, maybe they will always have a way to justify themselves.

The generals were already tired after a night of jurying, and when Zhao Xun was about to escort Wen Fang down to the tent, Xue Sheng, who was guarding outside the tent, came to him, approached Zhao Xun and said a few words, Zhao Xun frowned and nodded, and Xue Sheng left immediately.

When he was young, Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) carefully walked into the tent with a bowl of water and put the bowl in front of Zhao Xun.

"Zhao Shuai, it's ready."

Zhao Xun twisted his long hair suspiciously at this time, and still had concerns about Wen Fang's statement that Cangtian took away the broken silver bill, and always suspected that the Black Turban Army Heavenly Master had used some tricks, but he couldn't understand it. After thinking about brewing for a while, he first looked at the water in the bowl, the water was clear to the bottom, no different from the water he drank normally, and then he looked at Bailiyan and said:

"Alright, let's get started."

"No!"

At this time, everyone surrounded him, and Wen Fang was also dragged to him under the escort of the Xianjun soldiers.

I saw Bai Liyan take out a broken silver coin from his arms, the size of the broken silver coin is equivalent to a peanut, put it in the water for a short time, first bubbles, then slowly become smaller, and finally until it disappears, the huge broken silver coin disappeared out of thin air in front of more than a dozen pairs of eyes.

Seeing this scene, the generals in the tent discussed a lot, Jiang's father and son looked at each other, Zhao Xun frowned and immediately asked:

"Wen Fang, what was the situation that day?"

Wen Fang was stunned, nodded mechanically, and said in a daze:

"Yes, that's right, that's what the last general saw on that day."

"It seems that there is indeed a deception. Someone came, took General Wen Fang away, and took him into custody. ”

"No!"

The left and right armor soldiers stepped forward to take Wen Fang away, and the generals then dispersed, and what they were talking about was still the magic skill of turning white water into silver.