It's no wonder that Guo Bin was shocked when he heard the news of Zhang Liang's death, putting aside his personal likes and dislikes, Zhang Liang's huge role in the Yellow Turban Army is irreplaceable.

Today's Zhang Liang is undoubtedly the highest status in the Yellow Turban Army. First of all, his identity is the cousin of the great virtuous teacher Zhang Jiao, only this relationship, under the premise that Zhang Jiao has no heir, Zhang Liang is his most legitimate heir in Guangzong City. Second, Zhang Liang did not obtain such a position solely by virtue of his relationship with Zhang Jiao. He is not only strong in martial arts, decisive in action, but also has an excellent mind, and belongs to one of the few talents in the Yellow Turban Army who can take charge of himself, so when Liu identified Beijing and went to Yangzhai, Zhang Jiao would send him. Therefore, Zhang Liang's prestige in the Yellow Turban Army is extremely high, and his personal ability is also extremely strong.

The third and most important point is that Zhang Liang can suppress the 150,000 Yellow Turban Army in Guangzong City. The nature of an insurrectionary army with a leader and a rebel army without a leader is completely different. A team, as long as there is a leader, can be called a force, and there are rules for its behavior. This army is a robber who makes a living by plundering, and it also has principles and rules, and no matter how bad the rules are, they are countless times stronger than no rules. Without a leader, the action of the army is extremely wanton, and without unified action, although it cannot compete with the army, once it is lost, it can cause more harm than the bandits, because they have no bottom line.

Moreover, Guo Bin entered the city yesterday to recruit and surrender, and everything he talked about was carried out in the secret room, and its content was only known to Zhang Liang, Zhang Niujiao and Chu Yan. Zhang Liang and Zhang Jiao died one after another, which had a great impact on the morale of the Yellow Turban Army in the city, but the content of the recruitment that Guo Bin talked about yesterday also lost its effectiveness.

Guo Bin hurriedly grabbed Chu Yan and said urgently: "What the hell is going on?" Who killed Zhang Liang? ”

Chu Yan said in a deep voice: "Tang Zhou! ”

Guo Bin was taken aback and said, "What? Tang Zhou was cremated by our own hands, how could we still kill Zhang Liang? Wasn't he the one who died in the first place? ”

Chu Yan hurriedly said: "Brother Guo doesn't know, but there are Tang Zhou's people in the high-level people in the city!" ”

Guo Bin suddenly understood and said, "Tell me in detail!" ”

Chu Yan only told the story of what happened in the city after Guo Bin left.

It turned out that since Guo Bin and Zhang Liang finished discussing in the secret room, they gathered nearly 500 leaders of all sizes in the city, naturally to discuss the matter of recruiting peace. After explaining the bright prospects that Guo Bin said, Zhang Liang said to everyone present: "Surrendering the officers and soldiers is the only way out for us at present, and if we want to save the lives of so many people under our hands, we must do this." But all of you here, including me, Zhang Liang, can't surrender. ”

When the leaders heard this, they were all silent.

They naturally knew that the imperial court could turn a blind eye to the soldiers at the bottom, but it would never let go of them. The soldiers at the lowest level can put down their swords and guns and be ordinary people with confidence, but once these experienced leaders are released to the countryside, they are very likely to regain control of these former subordinates, at least the evil side, or the worst revolt. Therefore, it is impossible for the imperial court to rest assured, and it is impossible for them to have a future. Zhang Liang had already thought of countermeasures, so he told everyone that he would take the high-level leaders to break through and survive in the Taihang Mountains, and the leaders who had renewed hope were relieved.

After explaining the matter of Zhao'an to the leaders, Zhang Liang asked everyone to disband, and asked them to go to their respective camps in the city to talk about Zhao'an and explain it to the soldiers.

However, just when Zhang Liang, who had been busy for a day, was exhausted and lay asleep in the yamen hall, dozens of yellow turban leaders came. They took the soldiers and went straight to the county government hall, and besieged Zhang Liang without saying a word. Although Zhang Liang was extremely tired, after all, he was a person who had been cultivating Taoist internal strength for a long time, and he only relied on his long and distant breath to deal with so many people.

At this time, the high-level leaders of the Yellow Turban Army in Guangzong City went down to the grassroots level and were ordered to preach to the soldiers about recruiting security, and the only dozen ordinary soldiers in the county government had already been subdued by the people brought by the rebels.

These Yellow Turban leaders turned out to be middle and high-level leaders in Taiping Dao, and they were all in the rivers and lakes all year round. It was because of their high martial arts that they could afford to gather so many subordinates, so that they could win a high position in the army during the uprising. These well-known experts in the rivers and lakes came to besiege Zhang Liang together, and what steel knives and iron swords greeted him together.

However, Zhang Liang's martial arts are really beyond the imagination of these people, and the use of internal force is extremely proficient under Zhang Jiao's teaching and decades of exploration. His palm power was sometimes fierce, sometimes empty and weak, the virtual and the real changed, and he killed several people on the spot. For a while, everyone hesitated, timid, and unscrupulous, and even allowed Zhang Liang to have time to breathe.

Therefore, when Chu Yan and Zhang Niujiao heard the news and led people back to help, Zhang Liang had already killed all these people.

Guo Bin was impressed when he heard this, and wondered: "In this case, how did General Rengong die?" ”

When Chu Yan heard this, her eyes were full of tears, and she said, "He committed suicide!" ”

Guo Bin was shocked: "Why is this? ”

Chu Yan said: "At that time, although General Rengong won, there were many wounds on his legs. He was covered in blood, both his own and those of these rebellious people. ”

Guo Bin nodded and said: "I also admire his kung fu, but after all, manpower is sometimes exhausted, and under the dramatic battle, excessive blood loss is indeed extremely fatal." It's just how did you get involved with Tang Zhou again? Why did he commit suicide? ”

Chu Yan wiped a handful of tears and explained to Guo Bin.

It turned out that these people were all undercover agents of Tang Zhou who were ambushed in Taiping Dao, and their ultimate goal was to subvert Taiping Dao. Thinking about it, when Tang Zhou infiltrated Guangzong City at night and disturbed Zhang Jiao's mind, it was one, and contacting these subordinates was two.

When Guo Bin was discussing with Zhang Liang and others in the secret room, someone of them eavesdropped. Therefore, you can plan ahead and act in advance. Seeing that Zhang Liang had already discussed with the officials and soldiers to accept Zhao'an, and that the upper echelons of the Yellow Turban were going to break through to the Taihang Mountains to continue preaching, they knew in their hearts that tonight was the last chance, so they prepared to launch a rebellion. On the one hand, they sent people to besiege and kill Zhang Liang, and on the other hand, they preached in the army that Zhang Liang was going to abandon the troops in the city and break through the siege alone, causing trouble to the morale of the army.

That's not all, they actually contacted the middle and high-level of Taiping Road and incited them to rise up against Zhang Liang together.

They felt that as long as the lord Zhang Liang was captured or killed, they could make meritorious contributions and get the court's forgiveness. Ants are still stealing life, but what about people? Many of the generals of the Yellow Turban Army would rather follow the soldiers to Saiwai than follow Zhang Liang to fight guerrillas in the Taihang Mountains. The failure of the Yellow Turban Uprising has left many people disheartened.

Although the people who went to besiege Zhang Liang were unsuccessful, the results of the instigating soldiers were great.

Originally, among the ordinary soldiers, many people were coerced to join the Yellow Turban Army, and they were forced to do nothing. Now the army is besieging the city, and more than 100,000 people have no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground, almost desperate. Therefore, they were extremely eager to be recruited by the imperial court. And they were bewitched, thinking that Zhang Liang wanted to use the ordinary soldiers in the city as bait and break through alone.

Therefore, after the agitation in Guangzong City, the camp was really bombed, and many leaders who went to stabilize people's hearts were also trapped. No one thought that the real Tang Zhou had only a dozen people, but he could make such a big mess. Not only were many high-ranking generals bewitched by them, but the 150,000 troops in the city were even clamoring to capture Zhang Liang and hand him over to the official army, in order to make meritorious contributions.

Human nature is sometimes so ugly, Zhang Liang is a person who wants to protect them! It seems that the destructive power of the "masses who do not know the truth" is also extremely great. Zhang Liang saw this situation, and was seriously injured, and knew that there was nothing he could do, and besides, wasn't this the result he wanted? The brothers received Zhao'an and went to Saiwai to continue to live an ordinary life, while a group of high-level officials went to the Taihang Mountains to survive.

At that moment, Zhang Liang single-handedly dragged a group of almost crazy Yellow Turban soldiers, and let Zhang Niujiao and Chu Yan break out of the city with nearly 300 hardcore sect members of Taiping Dao.

The martial arts of these people are extremely high, and the destructive power formed by more than 300 people is also extremely great. However, they did not have the will to fight, Zhang Liang told them not to fight, all the way to the north to break through, after entering the Taihang Mountain, it can be considered safe, and at the same time, they also asked them to send someone to inform Zhang Bao, who had already broken through, that nothing could be done, and he should go to the Taihang Mountain to gather and leave a little fire in the Taiping Road.

Guo Bin pulled Chu Yan and said eagerly: "Zhang Liang is not dead yet?" Is he still alive? ”

Chu Yanden cried like a child, and said: "I took everyone to break through from the back gate of the county government, I couldn't bear it, and when I turned my head to look back, the general of the people, he killed himself!" Woooooo

A trace of luck in Guo Bin's heart was also shattered. He knew in his heart that even if Zhang Liang could survive, it would not be tolerated by the imperial court. As soon as the army in Guangzong City was leveled, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was destroyed, and the imperial court would no longer have scruples about acting. Therefore, those who should be killed must be killed.

Zhang Liang is one of the first evils of the Yellow Turban Uprising, and it is impossible to be forgiven by the imperial court in any case, Guo Bin also knows this truth, so he said to him: "Zhongshan, Shangdang and other places are crisscrossed by mountains and mountains, and they are not a place for heroes to live." This is to remind him that he should take the upper backbone of the Yellow Turban Army to take refuge in the Taihang Mountains.

It seems that Zhang Liang also understood the meaning of Guo Bin's words, and this arrangement was so that a group of hardcore Taiping Daoists under his command could rush to Taihang Mountain. Suddenly, Guo Binfang realized the loophole in what he said at the beginning, sighed, and said to Chu Yan: "It seems that I still have a problem with General Rengong." ”

Waving his hand to stop Chu Yan, who was about to speak, Guo Bin continued: "I'm afraid that General Rengong never thought of going to Taihang Mountain, he had long planned to live and die with Guangzong City. ”

Chu Yan exclaimed: "What? It's impossible, how can General Rengong leave us alone? ”

Guo Bin knew that Chu Yan was wrong, thinking that Zhang Liang's so-called breakthrough to Taihang Mountain was fake, and it was an expedient measure to stabilize his subordinates. He sighed at the moment and said, "If I pass through Zhao'an, the high-level of the Yellow Turban Army in the city will disappear overnight, how can the imperial court not be suspicious of me?" And as long as General Rengong is dead, the matter will be explained, and I will not be implicated. ”

When she boarded, Chu Yan was so shocked that she was speechless.