At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the political situation was unstable, the dictatorship of foreign relatives, the dictatorship of eunuchs, and the war against Xiqiang lasted for decades, with huge costs and heavy military service. In addition, the phenomenon of land annexation is serious, and the people are not able to make a living. In addition, in ancient society, the people all had religious beliefs, Zhang Jiao took this opportunity to combine his own medical skills with the content of the strange book "Taiping Yaoshu" to help the people, and vigorously publicized "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious". Zhang Jiao has been supported by many people, but at present, the people have long lost their trust. Under these circumstances, Zhang Jiao founded the Taiping Dao, which won the hearts of the people in a religious way, and established prestige among the poor peasants, with hundreds of thousands of believers. Zhang Jiao used his prestige among the people to divide the believers in the eight prefectures of Qing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan into 36 parties; There are more than 10,000 people in the big square and 6 or 7,000 people in the small side; Each side had a commander under his unified command, and prepared for a large-scale uprising with the intention of overthrowing the Han Dynasty and establishing a new world ruled by the Yellow Turban Army.

In 184 A.D. (the year of Jiazi), Zhang Jiao asked the believers to raise an army against the Han Dynasty with the slogan "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious"; "Cangtian" refers to the Eastern Han Dynasty, and "Huangtian" refers to the Taiping Road, and according to the speculation that the Five Virtues have always said, the Han Dynasty is the fire virtue, the fire gives birth to the earth, and the soil is yellow, so all believers are tied with a yellow scarf as a mark, symbolizing to replace the corrupt Eastern Han Dynasty. On the one hand, Zhang Jiao sent people to write the word "Jiazi" on the door of the shogunate as a recognition, and on the other hand, he sent Ma Yuanyi to Jingzhou and Yangzhou to gather tens of thousands of people to Ye to prepare, and went to Luoyang several times to collude with the eunuchs Feng Xu and Xu Feng, wanting to cooperate with the outside world.

However, a month before the uprising, a disciple of Zhang Jiao named Tang Zhou told the informant and confessed to Ma Yuanyi, the inner director 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, and ordered Jizhou to hunt down Zhang Jiao. Due to the suddenness of the incident, Zhang Jiao was forced to attack in February one month in advance, known as the Yellow Turban Uprising in history, because the insurgents tied yellow scarves on their heads, so they were called "Yellow Turbans" or "Moth Thieves", Zhang Jiao called himself "General Tiangong", Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were "General Digong" and "General Rengong" in the northern Jizhou area. Within a month, wars broke out in 28 counties in seven prefectures across the country, and the Yellow Turban Army was overwhelmed, and the prefectures and counties were lost, and the officials fled, shaking Kyoto.

Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty saw that Taiping Dao was so powerful, and hurriedly took He Jin as the general on the Wushen Day in March, and led the five battalions of Yulin to be stationed in Duting, and ordered weapons on the hour to guard the Beijing Division; In addition, from the Hangu Pass, Otani, Guangcheng, Yique, Yuyuan, Revolving Gate, Mengjin, Kopingjin and other Kyoto Passes, set up the garrison of the Commandery; He ordered all prefectures and counties to prepare for battle, train soldiers, count weapons, and gather rebels.

Huangfu Song asked for the lifting of the party ban, and took out the palace money and the good horses of the West Garden to give to the sergeants to improve morale, and Lu Yi said to Emperor Ling: "The party has accumulated for a long time, if you conspire with the Yellow Turban, you will regret it." (The scourge of the party has been accumulated for a long time, and if it conspires with the Yellow Turban, I am afraid that it will be hopeless.) Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty accepted the proposal, granted amnesty to the party members on Renzi Day, returned the migrants, asked the ministers to donate horses and crossbows, and recommended the descendants of the generals and people with deep strategies to be interviewed at the bus office.

On the other hand, he sent elite troops to suppress the chaos in various places: Lu Zhiling, the deputy general, led the five colonels of the Northern Army to take charge of the northern front and deal with Zhang Jiao's main force; Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun each led an army, controlled the five schools, the three rivers knights and the newly recruited elite warriors of more than 40,000 people, crusaded against the Yellow Turban Army in the Yingchuan area, Zhu Jun and recruited Sun Jian of Xiapi as the assistant army Sima, with the township boys and recruited various business brigades and Huaishui, Surabaya elite soldiers, a total of more than 1,000 people set off with Zhu Jun's army.

At this time, a cavalry of hundreds of people was rushing from Bingzhou to Jizhou. On the second day after Gao Ze came down the mountain, he heard that Beizhonglang would confront Lu Zhi in Jizhou and Zhang Jiao, so the handsome army went to help him.

But after only two hours of marching, there was a scout

"My lord, twenty miles ahead there is an imperial army of five thousand men, which is hurrying towards us, and behind him there are more than twenty thousand, about fifty miles away. In two more hours at their marching pace, their vanguard will be able to meet us" Gao Ze has paid special attention to intelligence since the establishment of the Blood Wolf Legion, and each scout has a fast horse, and they are all in groups of five. Each group is five miles apart and meets every two hours.

Gao Ze raised his right hand and signaled the whole army to stand still. The flag general received the order and immediately waved the red signal flag behind him, and the eight hundred cavalry took a few breaths at the moment of receiving the order, and all of them stood still. Even at such a high speed, there was no crowding or stampede. As for the signal flag, it was evolved by Gao Ze in combination with the traffic lights of later generations. Red represents stillness, green represents polar travel, and yellow represents vigilance. And this tricolor is now only used in conjunction with the drums when fighting with the cavalry, while the infantry still relies on the beating of drums.

"Big brother, should we go and meet them," Gao Ran said with a smile

"Of course, but we're here waiting. And I would like to know that an army of tens of thousands of people does not help General Lu Zhi in Jizhou. But he came to Merge the State, is there any big war going to happen in the Merge State? Gao Ze said with some confusion

It didn't take long for the scouts of the Han army to spot them, and their vanguard galloped towards Gao Ze and them in an attacking direction.

"Big brother, it seems that they regard us as enemies." Gao Shun said calmly

"Big brother, let me go," Gao Ran asked

"Be careful" Gao Ran got the command, and galloped forward with his legs between the belly of the horse

"Shun, be careful, there are changes," Gao Ze said faintly as he looked at Gao Lan in the distance

"The whole army is on alert" Gao Shun signaled that the flag will convey the general's order. In an instant, a yellow flag swayed in the air, and the whole army was on alert.

Seeing that only one horse was coming, the Han army sent a general to investigate

"What is the so-called matter of stopping our army from going here"

"In the Xia Nai Bingzhou Righteous Army, I heard that General Beizhong Lang is exterminating the Yellow Turban in Jizhou, so my eldest brother Gao Ze formed 800 children of his clan and prepared to go to Jizhou to help, but he saw the Heavenly Army coming to Bingzhou, so I came to ask, whether the war in Jizhou has been decided" Gao Ran said with a smile on his face

The general will see this person with a smile on his face, and he is a local rebel. Let go of hostility

"I see, then you wait here first, I'll report to the general" General Lai did not answer any questions from Gao Ran, and Gao Ran didn't care

"The 800 rebels are also a big help to us to stop the enemy this time. Go and tell the commander," the vanguard general said to the scout.

At this time, the 250,000 elite Han led by Lu Zhi were facing Zhang Jiao's 500,000 Yellow Turban main force, although the Yellow Turban had 500,000 troops, they were all farmers who farmed the land before participating in the Yellow Turban, and no matter how many troops they were, they were the elite opponents of the Han army. Therefore, in several encounters with Lu Zhi, he also lost more victories and suffered heavy losses, so he now retreated to the city. Fortunately, Guangzong City is the base camp of the Yellow Turban, with countless grains and grasses, and the high walls of the city are thick and difficult for Lu Zhi to break through. Therefore, Lu Zhi set up a plan to encircle and send reinforcements, intending to eliminate the Yellow Turban vitality that came to increase the number of troops as much as possible. However, Zhang Jiao ordered the surrounding yellow turbans to join him with all their might, intending to attack inside and outside and break the game.

And when Lu Zhi heard that Cheng Zhiyuan, the commander of the Yellow Turban Canal, led 120,000 troops to penetrate into the hinterland of Jizhou through Bingzhou, and attacked Han Zhong from Nanyang on three sides, intending to encircle and annihilate the Han army besieging Guangzong. Lu Zhi sensed that something was wrong, and immediately repaired a letter to Zhu Jun, who was fighting in Nanyang against Zhang Liang, to divide his troops to help stop Han Zhong. And Cheng Zhiyuan was left on this way, originally wanted to let Huangpu Song, who was fighting in Liangzhou, help, but who knew that the Huns and the people took this opportunity to suddenly attack, and Huangpu Song was powerless to help. Therefore, Lu Zhi sent Sun Ren, one of the five captains of the Northern Army, to lead 30,000 troops to Yanmen, Bingzhou to stop Cheng Zhiyuan, accompanied by Lu Zhi's disciple Liu Bei and his two sworn brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

"Since it is a local rebel army, let it be directly under the charter of the vanguard army. There is also a quick trip to Yanmen. Sun Ren said indifferently, for him, the addition of eight hundred people would not have any impact on the battle situation of tens of thousands of people.

"The general has an order, ordering his 800 righteous troops to be under the banner of his vanguard army charter, and to go to Yanmen as soon as possible."

"Chartered Command"

"Guards, inform the rebels of their general's orders. And let them follow their rear army, and don't be left behind. Departure"

Gao Ran got his order and returned to inform Gao Ze

"Big brother, this commander seems to look down on us a little," Gao Ran said a little sarcastically

"What do you mean a little, I feel like it," Zhao Yun said leisurely as he looked at Gao Lan

As soon as these words came out, Gao Ze, Gao Shun, and Gao Lan all stared at Zhao Yun in disbelief

"Big brother, what's the matter, why are you looking at me. Am I not right" Zhao Yun looked at the three of them with a calm face

Suddenly, the three of them laughed, and even Gao Shun, who was not good at words on weekdays, made Zhao Yun laugh. Gao Ze smiled and patted Zhao Yun's shoulder

"Zilong, you let Yun Feng influence too deeply"

Zhao Yun smiled heartily, and suddenly his voice changed

"Today you look down on us, and he will make all of you look down on us one day"

Gao Ze saw Zhao Yun at this time, and he was speechless in his heart. In the future, not only these people will look at us sideways, but even the whole world will tremble under our iron horses.

It didn't take long for a vanguard army of 5,000 people to appear in Gao Ze's sight, only to see this army in black clothes and black armor, neatly aligned, with a big flag whirring and a chapter on it, and at first glance it was an elite army that had been on the battlefield for a long time. And the charter also saw the rebel army, only to see that the cavalry of the rebel army lined up with diamond-shaped arrows, the same black clothes and black armor as the Han army, the only difference was that each of them was masked with black cloth, and only a pair of eyes leaked. And he, who is also a soldier, can deeply feel the killing intent emanating from them. What is even more impossible to ignore is the commander of the army at the forefront, although he can't see his face clearly, he can see that he is holding a long sword, and his body exudes a proud atmosphere, which can't help but make people look sideways. And the three people behind him gave people a cold and piercing feeling, and there was a strong aura of death on their bodies, although they were a hundred feet apart, he was a little afraid to look directly.

"Adjutant General, go and inform them. We must rush to Yanmen as soon as possible to set up defenses to prevent the Yellow Turban reinforcements from supporting Guangzong, so let them follow. There is also a person who has made his leader a captain of the Righteous Army, directly under the vanguard army."

Seeing the constitution of this army, I understand very well that this is not an ordinary rebel army, this is a sharp sword, if you use it properly, it is not a dream to become an official and become a knight

The lieutenant froze for a moment and still gave up

"Yes, General"

Gao Ze received the order and sneered in his heart. You are quite knowledgeable and have the wisdom to know people, not only do you not have the decision to use people. Since you and I have our own needs, then we have the value of cooperation

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