In the 7th year of Guanghe, 184 years, from the end of February to the end of March, in just one month, Taiping Road swept Jizhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou, Youzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and Jingzhou were also affected to varying degrees. In this month, the number of hundreds of thousands of Taiping Dao believers swelled to more than 1 million in an instant, and it is still growing rapidly.

It's just that Zhang Jiao didn't have any excitement about this, "It's faster than expected......" Zhang Jiao flipped through the information sent from all over the place, and sighed helplessly.

"Why do you sigh brother? You should be happy that the Yellow Turban Army can grow so quickly~" Zhang Bao asked suspiciously.

"The Yellow Turbans?" Zhang Jiao froze for a moment when he heard this, looked up at his own brother, and finally turned into a silent sigh. Since the Taiping Dao incident, the three of them gave themselves the titles of Heavenly Prince, Earth Prince, and Human Gong General, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang have become more and more fond of using the title of Yellow Turban Army to replace Taiping Dao. It sounds like it's just a title, but Zhang Jiao knows that this is the beginning of a runaway of control.

In just a month, Zhang Jiao had already noticed that the Yellow Turban Army had gradually escaped his control, and it had nothing to do with Taiping Dao at all. Because today's Yellow Turban Army has quickly changed from a righteous army that rescued the people from the sea of suffering, to a vengeful army that loots, burns, and constantly takes revenge on families and landlords.

In the information in Zhang Jiao's hands, after countless cities were captured by the Yellow Turban Army, the landlords, big families, and families in the city would usher in a nightmare-like ending. The man was killed, the woman was taken away, all the previous treasures of the family were snatched away, and the last fire completely buried everything. And for all this, the owners who have become Qu Shuai in various places, not only are they ashamed, but they are sent to Zhang Jiao as a bargaining chip to invite merit.

What's more, not only landlords, families, but even those ordinary people who are unwilling to join the Yellow Turban Army will also suffer this terrible catastrophe. Join, burn and loot together, and if you don't join, you will be burned and looted. The vast majority of the people made the easiest choice in this forced double choice. And this is also the reason for the rapid expansion of the Yellow Turban Army.

But this obviously did not match the strategy that Zhang Jiao had formulated at the beginning, because what he hoped to do was to force the family and landlords to side with him by suppressing and threatening them. Because only with their support will the Yellow Turbans really get a chance to turn the tide.

Zhang Jiao could almost guess the scene he would encounter in the future, because of the tyranny of the Yellow Turban Army, countless families and landlords had to resist desperately for their own families, instead of continuing to pretend to be dead and waiting for reinforcements from the Han family. Moreover, not long ago, Zhang Jiao learned that the imperial court had relaxed the virtuous nephews of landlords, families, and even local county guards and county orders, allowing them to recruit troops on their own to resist the Yellow Turban Army.

This situation will obviously make the family and landlords more and more powerful, although it will also weaken the Han family's rule over the region, but it has nothing to do with the Yellow Turban Army.

It's just that Zhang Jiao's worries seem to be in vain, because the truth is completely different from what Zhang Jiao feared, at least the power of the Yellow Turban Army has grown stronger and stronger over time. Especially with the fall of one county town after another, the peasants, who were originally only dressed in sackcloth and armed with hoes and sickles, also armed one after another. It seems that this massive Yellow Turban Rebellion is beginning to become more and more difficult to quell.

In Jizhou, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang each commanded more than 100,000 troops and marched to Zhongshan and Bohai respectively, while Zhang Jiao personally commanded 100,000 people and marched all the way to Yecheng in Wei County.

On the other hand, Qu Shuai Bocai led an army of 100,000 to approach Yingchuan, and others such as Bu Ji, Zhang Mancheng, Guan Hai and others, each commanding the army and constantly expanding their power.

In the face of the strong Yellow Turban Army, various families and landlords fled to various counties and the nearest fortified cities to prepare to defend to the death, among which various heroes and heroes emerged.

For example, in Dong'e County, Yanzhou East County, Cheng Yu, the young master of the Cheng family, only had 100 people, and when the county rebelled and the county order fled, he defeated the county seat Wang Du, welcomed back the county order, and defended Dong'e County until now. Although the main reason for this is that Dong'e County is not regarded as a priority city by the main force of the Yellow Turban Army.

Another example is Xu Chu, the young master of the Xu family in Qian County, who recruited thousands of strong men and clans, and constantly repelled the attacking Yellow Turban Army with the help of Wubao and the county soldiers.

However, it is clear that if this continues, they will eventually be defeated by the Yellow Turbans, because with local forces alone, they will not be able to hold back the Yellow Turbans for too long. After all, in the absence of the imperial court, they simply could not unite against the Yellow Turban Army.

Fortunately, although the imperial court reinforcements came a little slowly, Wang Yun and others arrived at the place as quickly as possible and began to organize local officials, families, and landlords to defend and counterattack.

End of March.

The first wave of reinforcements from the imperial court officially entered the war, and Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun each commanded 2 soldiers and horses, and went straight to Yingchuan in Yuzhou out of Henan Yin. The reason why Yingchuan took the lead in supporting Yingchuan is also very simple, because there are too many great families in Yingchuan County, and most of them are inextricably linked with those scholars and doctors in the imperial court. It can be said that in the eyes of the imperial court, the most important place in the entire Yuzhou is Yingchuan County.

On the other hand, Li Yi finally waited for Zhang Rou, the general of the Huns. Of course, this can't be blamed on Zhang Rou's slow action, because it is really difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, on the one hand, the imperial court needs to send troops to garrison various checkpoints, on the other hand, Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, and Zhu Jun have to recruit troops, and they can collect enough troops in about half a month, which is already very powerful.

"Hehe, General Lu Zhonglang is too high-spirited, the Duliao camp is just a new army, and righteousness has to rely on General Lu Zhonglang~" Looking at the letter sent by Lu Zhi in his hand, Li Yi chuckled and said, "Please report back to General Lu Zhonglang, and Yiding will meet him as soon as possible~"

After the messenger left, Cai Yong immediately opened his mouth to persuade, "Zikang Mo should be careless, from Bingzhou to Julu, even if you go to Changshan Country, you have to pass through many cities that have been occupied by Yellow Turban thieves, and Zikang, your command is all cavalry......"

"Please rest assured that my son-in-law will not joke with the lives of his sons~" Li Yi replied respectfully. Hearing this, Cai Yong didn't say anything more, and when it came to fighting, Cai Yong asked himself if he was not as good as Li Yi.

Arriving at Duliaoying, Lu Bu and the others had already been waiting here for a long time. "So...... Let's go~" Li Yi turned over Xiaobai and ordered lightly.