Handan City, also known as Zhao Wangcheng, has been an important vassal state of the country since the Qin and Han dynasties, and Liu Yu, the king of Zhao at this time, is the uncle of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Liang, and it is already the seventh generation at this time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Like many royal families in the Han Dynasty, Liu Yu is also a mediocre king.

Handan City is composed of three cities, namely the East City, the West City and the North City, and the characters are finished in the type, each with several city gates, which can echo each other to rescue. The area of the city is vast, with rammed earth as the wall, and there is a six-zhang moat outside. When I was away from Handan, I had looked at the city defense of Handan a little, the city wall was as thick as five or six zhang, and it could be practiced by running horses, and the high one was eight zhang, and the short one was also five zhang. There are 3,000 guards in the city, although they are negligent in training, but because there is an iron official workshop in Handan, the armor is complete, and the combat power is not weak.

paid and led a few people to ride horses around Handan City to look at the city defense, and turned around, and no one in the city dared to drive away.

Cheng Zhang looked at the city of Handan, just vigilant and cautious guards and brave people, shook his head to introduce the situation in the city, and said: "Big brother, Handan has a total of 20,000 households and 120,000 people. Although there were less than 8,000 households in the city, there were as many as 40,000. There are 3,000 guards alone, and at least 5,000 can be summoned by the brave and brave. Coupled with the danger of the city's high pool, our army is only 3,500 people, and nearly half of the soldiers and armor are uneven, how can we break this Handan City. ”

After paying the salary and being silent for a long time, he said: "Indeed, our army has few soldiers, and the Han family has many soldiers, and it can't be broken hard." Fortunately, Liu Yu, the king of Zhao, is greedy for life and afraid of death, otherwise if he is replaced by a king who dares to fight, there are so many soldiers in Handan City, where can I lead the army to force him. However, there are no warriors in this Handan army, not even bloody people, if you give me twice as many men and horses, you can attack this Handan city. ”

Chengzhang asked: "Big brother, what should our army do now?" ”

Fu Xin smiled: "I don't see the morale of the soldiers of Handan, I don't dare to decide the following battle strategy." Knowing that there are no men in this Handan City, then I know the direction of the strategy behind. ”

Chengzhang asked, "The direction of the strategy behind?" Giant deer? Or ......"

Pay and said: "It's Wu'an." ”

Cheng Zhang nodded thoughtfully and said: "Wu'an is located at the eastern foot of Taihang, which is the junction of the two states of Hebei and Hebei. There are a lot of iron mines there, which is the main iron material for the Handan Iron Workshop, does the eldest brother want to take the iron of Wu'an to make weapons? ”

Fu nodded and said: "Yes, after taking Wu'an City, our army will have endless weapons available, and Shecheng and Maocheng in the southwest of Wu'an are the main transportation routes of the two states, and Huguan Road is located. I blocked the Huguan Road here, and the Changshan Zhangniujiao Department sealed the well path, so the iron cavalry of the state will not be able to come to Jizhou in a short time, which is extremely beneficial to my Taiping Dao strategy Jizhou. Jizhou is the largest state in the world, and once Jizhou is under it, the HB war will be worry-free. ”

Cheng Zhang asked: "According to the eldest brother's battle plan, don't you still want to go south to attack Hanoi County and block the court's conquest army in the west?" ”

Fu Yu laughed and said, "After a battle, the virtuous brother can be regarded as having some understanding of this way of conquest. Yes, the foolish brother does have this idea, if the foolish brother can enter the Taiping Taoism as soon as possible, at this time it is a generous Qu Shuai, maybe the foolish brother still wants to attack Luoyang City. It's just that the army is weak now, so it can only be for the great virtuous and good master to block the conquest army of the court, so that the great virtuous and good teacher can quickly take the entire Jizhou. ”

Cheng Zhang bowed and said: "Since the incident, the eldest brother has not been interested in his own interests, and only thinks about the success of my teaching, such a noble character, so that the younger brother admires." ”

Pay the salary and said: "The foolish brother either doesn't rebel, since he is against the Han family, he will be bent on destroying the Han family, and the others are not in the foolish brother's mind for the time being." ”

Chengzhang nodded yes and rode back to the camp with the salary. The salary was paid to the Zhao King and Zhao Xiangguo of Handan City who had no courage to fight, and although the two counties of Xiangguo and Yiyang were in danger, they ordered the camp to turn to the west. He also ordered Chengzhang to lead the army slowly, and led 800 elite soldiers to attack Wu'an.

Wu'an is more than 60 miles away from Handan, although it is known that there are thieves outside Handan City, and they are wary of thieves, but they do not expect that the thieves will abandon Handan and go straight to Wu'an City, and the King of Zhao and Zhao Xiangguo of Handan do not dare to send troops to attack and harass them. So he was caught off guard and was attacked by the paid troops to capture the city.

Pay to hand over Wu'an City to Chengzhang to stay, make weapons for the army, and then lead the army to attack Maocheng and Shecheng, both of which are under the battle, and suddenly blocked the Huguan Road, the traffic point of the two states.

When the two brothers Luo Pei and Luo Zhi were left to guard Maocheng and return to Wu'an, Chengzhang informed the payment of salary, and the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao had captured the ten counties in the south of Julu County.

According to the theory of "the rule of heaven, the rule of the earth, the rule of man, the three extremes, and then the rule of all things" in the "Taiping Technique", he appointed himself as the "General of Tiangong", his younger brother Zhang Bao called himself "General Digong", and his younger brother Zhang Liang called himself "General Rengong".

Zhang Jiao also reiterated the widely circulated Taiping Dao proverb that "the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is peaceful". It shows that according to the rise and fall of all things in heaven and earth, and according to the law of the evolution of the dynasty advocated by Zou Yan, a yin-yang scholar in the pre-Qin period, the number of days of the Han Dynasty has been exhausted.

Pay asked him: "Then our army will call itself the Yellow Turban Rebel Army in the future?" ”

Cheng Zhang said with a smile: "Yes, it is the Yellow Turban Righteous Army, after receiving the report, I ordered someone to make the flag of the Yellow Turban Righteous Army, which replaced the original sixteen-character mantra banner, but the sixteen-character mantra banner can still be used as a secondary flag." ”

The salary was noncommittal about this, and asked: "How is the weapon that has been made recently?" ”

Cheng Zhang opened a bamboo book and said: "There are many craftsmen in Wu'an City, and in five days, a total of 300 long knives, 200 long swords, 700 spears, and 10,000 long arrows were made. Coupled with what Wu'an had stored in the past, it was enough to equip an army of 2,000. However, the iron has been used up and needs to be re-mined before it can be re-mined. ”

Fu Fu shook his head and said: "No need, all the mining craftsmen will be incorporated into the army, weapons will be issued, and preparations will be made to attack Handan." ”

Cheng Zhang exclaimed: "What's the matter, big brother? ”

He said heavily: "I heard the news from Hanoi in Shecheng, a few days ago, Emperor Han took He Jin as the general, and led the five battalions of Yulin to be stationed in Duting, and ordered weapons on the whole to guard the Beijing division. In addition, from Hangu Pass, Otani, Guangcheng, Yique, Xuanyuan, Xuanmen, Mengjin, Xiaopingjin and other Kyoto passes, set up a garrison of the commander. Then he issued an edict to all localities to take strict precautions, and ordered all states and counties to train soldiers, order weapons, and prepare for battle. All counties and counties were also allowed to freely assemble volunteers to suppress our Yellow Turban Volunteers across borders. ”

"Moreover, the main force sent by the Han Emperor to suppress our army was the 60,000 troops of the middle base, tun cavalry, infantry, Yue cavalry, Changshui, Hu cavalry, shooting sound, tiger ben, and other eight schools in the most elite southern and northern armies guarding Luoyang City. The coach has a total of three lieutenant generals, Lu Zhi from Jizhou, Huangfu Song from Yuzhou, and Zhu Jun from Jingzhou. ”

Chengzhang said hesitantly: "Isn't this something I expected when I waited for the incident?" Why is the eldest brother still so uneasy? ”

Fu Yu explained: "I thought that the Han Emperor was cowardly, and his decision must not be so fast, let alone send the southern and northern armies out of Beijing to quell the rebellion. Unexpectedly, he underestimated the decisiveness of the Han Emperor, and in order to quell the rebellion, he not only sent the elite in Beijing, but also took the initiative to surrender to Qingliu, and reactivated Qingliu, who was persecuted by the Ten Standing Servants a few years ago, as the guard of the counties and counties. Reuse the famous men Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, and Zhu Jun, who are good at conquest, and allow all states and counties to call for volunteers and soldiers to quell the rebellion across the border. Even if the clans and wealthy families in various places help the army to quell the rebellion, they can also measure their merits and official positions. In this way, our Yellow Turban Rebels are no less than enemies of countless elites from all walks of life across the country, and our Yellow Turban Rebels are in danger. ”

Cheng Zhang asked anxiously: "In this case, then what strategy should my Yellow Turban Rebels adopt to defeat the Han Dynasty?" ”

Fu Fu shook his head, nodded again, and said: "Now I only think about the word people's hearts." At the beginning of my Taiping Dao uprising, there were ten permanent servants in the court who brutally persecuted the world's clans and Qingliu, and the clans and Qingliu would inevitably only watch from the sidelines and ignore the danger of the Han family, so this was just a war between the Taiping Dao and the Han family. As long as they can gather troops to quickly capture Luoyang City and destroy the Han family, the clan and Qingliu will naturally obey the order. ”

"But now the Han family has taken the initiative to admit defeat and surrender to the Qingliu of the world, and now it has become a war between Taiping Dao and the Han family and the Qingliu of the world. In this way, the enemy is strong and we are weak, and if we want to win at this time, only those who win the hearts of the people can get the world, and those who lose the hearts of the people will lose the world. Therefore, the course of the war must drag on for a long time, and see who can not bear the delay first, and who completely loses the hearts of hundreds of millions of people first, and who loses. ”

Cheng Zhang said with a smile: "It doesn't hurt in this way, my Taiping Dao has always been good at winning people's hearts, as long as it drags on, my Taiping Dao and the great sage and good teacher will be able to have the last laugh." ”

The salary payment is not so optimistic, just looking at what Luo Fang did in Xiangguo County half a month ago, even if it is not very popular. The character of the Taipingdao Dafang Qu Shuai, the Xiao Fang Xiaoshuai and the deacons and leaders of the counties in other places is not clear at all. In addition, until this time, I have not seen the face of the great sage and good teacher, and I don't know the true thoughts of the great sage and good teacher, so I can't really settle down.

In the early years, he only focused on studying military books and war strategies, and he cared too little about world affairs, so that he didn't know much about the long-famous Taiping Dao in the world. If he had joined Taiping Road earlier, why would he be as bottomless as he is now.