Outside the east gate of Yangzhai County, inside the Yellow Turban Army camp, it was busy.

On the orders of the leader, everyone cut down the wood in the north mountain of Yangzhai City and put it directly into the Yingshui, and let it flow downstream. Downstream, there are ropes that run across the water to block driftwood that floats downstream. Then, the logs were pulled to the shore one by one, which could not only set up a camp, but also be used to make a ladder to climb the city, and everyone sighed at the wisdom and determination of the general Zhengxi.

General Zhengxi is the leader of the Taiping Dao who came to attack Yangzhai County this time, and he is a native of Yingchuan Yingyin. The surname is He Mingman, who is nine feet five inches long, very heroic, and has amazing strength, so that a long iron stick weighing about 80 pounds. Because of his burly figure, excellent martial arts, and fierce and vicious, the people of the rivers and lakes said: "Intercepting the Sky Yaksha".

He Man is the No. 1 fierce general under Bocai, the leader of Yuzhou Dafang, and a long iron stick makes him a powerful move, and he has never met an opponent in his life. Just because his blade is heavy, and his strength is amazing, every time he encounters a strong enemy, he only needs to smash it hard to shake the enemy back, it can be said that He Man has never fought with the enemy more than three moves. The so-called "one force to ten meetings" describes people like He Man.

In the Chinese military tent, He Man laughed and said to a man in a Confucian robe: "Mr. is really clever, and the mountains and rivers of Yangzhai seem to be in Mr.'s chest." ”

The man said: "I was born in Yangzhai, grew up in Yangzhai, and has been an official in Yangzhai for many years, if I am not familiar with the geography of the mountains and rivers around Yangzhai City, it seems that I can't say anything." Ha ha! That being said, the man was visibly proud.

If Guo Bin was here, he would definitely recognize at a glance that this Taiping Dao military master of the lupine scarf turned out to be Jia Ren, who had been operating in Yangzhai County for several generations and had been the Cheng of Yangzhai County!

At the beginning, the eldest prince Liu Ban came to Yangzhai and attracted Zhang Liang, the No. 3 person in Taiping Road. In order to assassinate Liu Bian and create a chaotic situation in Beijing, so as to facilitate the Taiping Dao, Zhang Liang also exposed Jia Ren, who had been lurking in Yangzhai County for many years.

Later, Taiping Dao was burned to death by Guo Bin with fire, and only a dozen people with strong martial arts or excellent luck escaped, including Jia Ren. At that time, Jia Ren saw that the situation was not right, and without saying a word, he jumped into the water, and grabbed the boat gang, leaking his head out of the water to breathe. Because he grew up in Yangzhai since he was a child, he went down to fish every day, and Jia Ren's water nature was naturally very good, but later because of the change of identity, he felt that he was expensive, and he no longer took off the groundwater.

Fortunately, he rented all the nearby boats at the beginning, and Guo Binfang did not send people to cruise back and forth on the Yingshui, otherwise Jia Ren would not have escaped death.

This may be just a small setback in his eyes Zhang Liang, but in Jia Ren's view, it is a big deal, and the family business left by his ancestors has been ruined for him. Now Jia Ren has a family and can't go back, and his property is confiscated, which is very different from being respected everywhere when he was the county governor, how can he accept it?

Therefore, he instigated Bocai to take advantage of Guo Bin's absence in Yang Zhai to send people to capture Yang Zhai.

Although Bocai and Guo Bin have a grudge against his brother, after all, he is the head of Taiping Dao in Yuzhou, and he has hundreds of thousands of brothers under his hands, and he has been repeatedly warned by Zhang Liang. Naturally, he would not send an army of 30,000 to attack Yang Zhai because of a little personal vendetta, let alone raise an incident before the appointed date of the great sage and good teacher.

But after all, Yang Zhai's strategic position is too important, and Yang Zhai County is not in his hands for a day, even if he pulls up a million troops, he is still like a fish in his throat, and he is very uncomfortable. In addition, Guo Bin is far away in Beijing, which is news that the whole world knows. With Guo Bin's talent and influence in Yang Zhai, Bo Cai believed that if Guo Bin was in the city, even if he sent an army of 100,000, he might not be able to take Yang Zhai down, and the people in the city would be facing him. And this time Guo Bin is not in Yangzhai, it is indeed a good opportunity.

In addition, Yang Zhai is located in a remote area, and the transmission of news is inconvenient, and when the news of Yang Zhai being besieged enters Beijing, I am afraid that the Taiping Road in the world has already been raised in various places.

These are all the truths that Jia Ren said when he lobbied Bo Cai, although they were very logical, Bo Cai was still unmoved. Because the great sages and good teachers agreed to do things on the fifth day of the third month, it cannot be changed. As one of the eight disciples of the Great Sage and Good Master, Bo Cai naturally understood the deep meaning of the Great Sage and Good Master choosing to do things on this day.

It wasn't until a piece of news came that Bo Cai accepted Jia Ren's suggestion and sent He Man, the most brave and skilled "Intercepting Heaven Yaksha" under his command, to lead an army to attack Yang Zhai.

"The headquarters of Jingzhong fell, and Ma Yuanyi was arrested."

It was only eleven words, but it made Bo Cai shocked. Ma Yuanyi was in charge of liaison in the Beijing Division, controlling the list of Jingzhong Taiping Dao, once he was arrested, it indicated that several years of efforts in the Jingzhong Taiping Road were in vain, and the beheading of Luoyang formulated by the Great Sage and Good Master at the beginning, and then the world echoed, with Jizhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou Suotun army to defend the Beijing Division, and resist the plan of the Qinwang Division in various places also became a joke.

The imperial court will inevitably send people to search for Taiping Dao everywhere and exclaim the top officials of Taiping Dao. Therefore, if we have to adhere to the agreement on the fifth day of the first month of March, we will lose its significance. This is the fundamental reason why Bo Cai agreed to Jia Ren's request, moved in advance, and captured Yangzhai County. As for why Bocai got the news so quickly, and learned about the failure of Jingzhong before Guo Bin arrived in Yingchuan, it was because Taiping Dao naturally had its own way of delivering news. After so many years of planning, the means of collecting news from all over the world are endless, and the speed of its information transmission is also extremely amazing.

They bought off the post officials, mixed the information in the form of a password in the imperial court urgency, and through the cobweb-like post transmission system of the Han Dynasty, the information was transmitted to various places, which was the root of Zhang Jiao's ability to grasp the news of the world at any time.

Yizhi was a communication organization for the delivery of documents in the Han Dynasty, but it was limited to the transmission of urgent and important official documents. The transmission method is mainly light vehicles and fast horses, and one is set up every 30 miles or so on the main traffic line. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to save costs, it was often set up to ride without a car, because the law stipulates that the post can only be used for official business, and the big nobles and bureaucrats of the Western Han Dynasty also have private post passes.

The speed of the post is extremely fast and the efficiency is very high. In the Western Han Dynasty, from Jincheng (now northwest of Yongjing, Gansu) to Chang'an, it only took seven days to return the official documents. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the messenger of the seal book of the Son of Heaven rode for thousands of miles in a day and night. Therefore, when the news of the defeat in Beijing arrived in Yingchuan through the imperial court, Guo Bin was still on the way.

Since coming to Yangzhai County, Jia Ren's assistance to He Man has been remarkable. Many ideas can only be put forward by people who are extremely familiar with the mountains and rivers around Yangzhai County. For example, if you are not a local, who would have thought of cutting wood in the mountains north of Yangzhai and then going down the river to make siege equipment?

He Man said to Jia Ren: "Sir, now that the soldiers are in the city for a few days, we are fighting every day, but Zhao Yun is just hanging up the battle exemption card, and he does not go out of the city, and it is not a way to go in the long run." Sir, do you have a clever plan to break the city? ”

Jia Ren stroked his long hair, waved his feather fan, and said, "General, don't worry, my people have already entered the city, and at the latest tomorrow, there will be news." The general only needs to wait for a few days, and the gate of Yangzhai County will be opened. ”

To say that He Man has no culture since he was a child, just because he is tall and has natural divine power, he has mixed up with the rivers and lakes. By chance, he met Bocai, the generous leader of Taiping Dao in Yuzhou and one of the eight disciples of the Great Sage and Good Master, and joined Taiping Dao under the "influence" of Bocai.

After joining the Taiping Dao, because he was tall and mighty, upright by nature, loyal, and dared to fight, he dared to fight when he got up, and every time he rushed to the front, and he made several great contributions to the Taiping Dao, so Bo Cai attached great importance to him, and specially taught him a set of dragon wand methods passed down by the great sage and good teacher.

This set of dragon wand method was created by the great sage and good teacher in recent years, and the moves are wide open and close, and the power is unlimited. It should have been used to urge the iron rod with internal kung fu to fully show the subtlety of lifting weights in it. Just because of the wide opening and closing moves, the blades used are not as sharp as the legendary Heavenly Sword, and the sword that can cut gold and jade is a heavy and thick long weapon. Therefore, only people with high internal strength can make the essence of the dragon staff method, if it is an ordinary person who does not understand the internal strength, with a wooden staff, but there is no ordinary staff method of variety, and there is also a lack of the power of the dragon staff method, and the two ends do not rely on, even the ordinary stick method is quite inferior.

However, this He Man, born with divine power, actually used pure brute force to make an iron rod weighing 80 catties, and use it to perform the dragon wand method of opening and closing, and he actually had both form and spirit, and he was more divine than the Bocai who taught him this staff method. Bo Caidu often said: "The great sage and good teacher's dragon wand method is originally driven by profound internal kung fu, but you can find your own way." If it weren't for your innate divine power, how could you make it move? ”

This Taiping Dao incident, because of the fear that there are many masters under Guo Bin in Yangzhai County, Bo Caifang sent He Man, the number one general under him, to let him take advantage of Guo Bin's absence in Yangzhai to capture Yangzhai County, earn some qualifications, and be able to play a big role in the future. In addition, let Jia Ren, the former Yangzhai County Cheng who is literate and hyphenation, assist him, one article and one martial arts, complement each other, and he must be able to succeed immediately.

Because He Man has never studied, he has great respect for Jia Ren's image as a scum-like strategist, and he is also willing to take care of Jia Ren. In his mind, a literati like Jia Ren, who has to fan a feather fan even though the weather is frighteningly cold, is the image that a strategist should have, if he doesn't shake his head like this, what is the difference between him and those pretending to teach in the private school in the mountains?

At that moment, He Man said to Jia Ren: "Everything is left to Mr., but what Mr. said about Wu Yi, the right lieutenant of Yangzhai County, is it really reliable?" ”

Jia Ren said: "General, please relax, it was this person who opened the south gate of Yangzhai and released us out of the city, only hating Guo Bin for finding the location of our hidden ships, which led to the almost annihilation of the entire army." I have his Wu Yi handle in my hand, and I am not afraid that he will not cooperate. ”

He Man listened, nodded again and again, and admired Jia Ren's resourcefulness and decisiveness in his heart.