In 184 A.D., according to the Ganzhi method, this year is the year of Jiazi.

Originally, Zhang Jiao and Ma Yuanyi agreed to start on March 5, Ma Yuanyi led Jingyang Taiping Taoist believers to Qinwang in Luoyang, and Zhang Jiao sent troops to Luoyang in Yecheng. Unexpectedly, his disciple Tang Zhou reported to the Eastern Han court, and Emperor Liu Hong issued an edict to investigate the Taiping Road and arrest Ma Yuanyi and other Jingyang Taiping Road thieves.

In February, Zhang Jiao received the news of Ma Yuanyi's death, and Ma Yuanyi's death was vigorous, which caused quite a serious impact. Zhang Jiao was forced to launch a rebellion in advance.

Zhang Jiao called himself "General Tiangong", and his younger brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were "General Digong" and "General Rengong" respectively, plus countless partial generals.

For a time, the Yellow Turban Army was so powerful that the local government was caught off guard, and officials and people fled one after another.

In Jizhou, Liu Zhong, the king of Ganling, and Liu Xu, the king of Anping, were captured, and Liu Wei, the king of Changshan, abandoned the country and fled.

"Jiyu, the rice has been made, hurry up and eat." While speaking, Gan Ning entered Xiang Cheng's Chinese army tent with two bowls of hot somen noodles, and after putting the noodles on the table, Gan Ning ate them by himself, but Xiang Cheng was still studying the map behind this handsome case.

Xiang Cheng's big camp is located twenty miles outside Anping City.

Anping has jurisdiction over eleven counties and one city. This Anping City is Liu Xu's place. Liu Xu is now locked up in this barracks, but he is not given less food, the only thing is that he can't walk around in this barracks. It is also difficult for this forty-year-old man to tremble and now tremble with this strongman around the place.

Gan Ning was about to finish eating this noodle, Xiang Cheng reluctantly left the map, picked up the noodles and asked while eating: "You said that General Tiangong asked us to fight Luoyang, but we haven't sent troops yet, why did you transfer us to Anping again?" ”

"I don't know, I'll follow you anyway." Gan Ning's lips were slurred, and he answered Xiang Cheng's question while sucking the noodles.

Gan Ning is like this, and after identifying the person who follows, he will naturally end up from the beginning. Now Gan Ning is very young, he doesn't need to think about what he wants next, what he wants, the current Gan Ning is like a blank paper, waiting for the big dye vat in the late Eastern Han Dynasty to paint colorful patterns on his body. As long as this pattern is painted, Gan Ning will definitely dance in the sky like a phoenix.

It's just that now Xiang Cheng is looking at Gan Ning's unspeakable trouble, mainly because Gan Ning's appearance of eating noodles is too picturesque. He is a stupid son of a landlord's family, but the question is where is the landlord's land?

"Ji Yu, hurry up and eat, the general asked me to tell you that I am going to the camp after eating." Gan Ning took the last bite of noodles and spoke.

Gan Ning's bowl of somen noodles with pictures was eaten extremely quickly, and after three or five bites, this bowl of noodles made him eat as quickly as gruel. After listening to Gan Ning's words, Xiang Chengcai reacted, why don't you say that you want to discuss things when you eat! Xiang Cheng's noodles have only taken a bite now.

Xiang Cheng was helpless, so he had to eat it too. As for the taste of this noodle, it is naturally comparable to the delicacies of the mountains and the sea. Because, even if you put the delicacies of the mountains and seas here, you can't taste it if you swallow it in this way of eating it by Xiang Cheng.

Xiang Cheng and Ganning came to Zhang Jiao's military tent, and all the "generals" who should be present were also present. In addition to the three generals of heaven, earth and man, Ma Zhong and Bai Ren also stood aside respectfully.

To say that this capture of Anping City was carried out under Bai Ren's planning, and now Zhang Jiao is also a little righteous to Bai Ren, and from time to time he is transferred from Xiang Cheng's men to Bai Ren to help him staff "the general trend of the world".

Of course, in addition to this group of acquaintances, there is also a person in this big tent who Xiang Cheng has never seen at all. The man was about thirty years old, with a sallow complexion, a moustache on his face, and a pair of small eyes that seemed to never open in deep eye sockets. Xiang Cheng saw this person as soon as he entered the door, not because of anything else, but because of such a deep eye socket that left a deep impression on Xiang Cheng, not because the eye socket was deep and handsome, but because this person looked like he hadn't eaten for hundreds of years, and there was no flesh between the skin and bones in the eye sockets.

Looking at the figure again, this person is thin, but he is wearing a slightly fat armor, but he looks a little nondescript. Xiang Cheng is a polite person, probably. Seeing such a look and dress, I couldn't help but laugh. But Gan Ning next to him didn't have so many estimates, and before Zhang Jiao could introduce him, Gan Ning suddenly laughed.

It didn't seem to be enough to laugh by himself, so he pointed at the man and said, "Xiang Cheng looks like a mountain ape, it's really funny!" Hahahaha. Xiang Cheng was so amused by Gan Ning, and he couldn't help laughing.

Mainly because a picture appeared in Xiang Cheng's mind, after all, some time ago, he and Gan Ning, Ma Zhong, and Bai Ren went to the forest to survey the terrain, and what was scurrying in the forest was the monkey with the general appearance of this person standing in front of him.

Smiling is magical, but laughing is magical. Gan Ning's laughter was not loud, but it instantly resounded throughout the camp. Zhang Bao is chuckling, Zhang Liang is smirking, and Zhang Jiao is snickering.

Ma Zhong couldn't help but laugh after listening to Gan Ning's laughter, and said to Bai Ren next to him while laughing: "I just said that I feel that this general is so familiar, I have already seen it when I was in Hejian." ”

Bai Ren didn't know why, but after being reminded by Ma Zhong, he also laughed out loud with a "poof".

After everyone finished laughing, the "mountain ape general" spoke: "The good teacher sits down and gathers the heroes, presumably there is no need for the mountain people to talk too much here, farewell!" Although the tone was flat, it was not difficult to hear that he was already annoyed in this blandness.

Hearing that this person was leaving, Xiang Cheng and Gan Ning were very aware of the current affairs, and the gate of the camp behind them let them out, and this sideways action Gan Ning made eye contact with the "Mountain Ape General" again, which made Gan Ning laugh again.

Although Gan Ning was born as a ranger, people in this era still have a certain yearning for being an official or something, otherwise he would not have established "Jinfan", let alone dressed exquisitely when he was a water bandit. After all, the Han Dynasty was still an era that really looked at "appearance", and I won't mention it here. So when Gan Ning saw this person appear in the big tent, he naturally had a contempt in his heart, plus Gan Ning's free and easy personality, this contempt was revealed in this way.

"General Mountain Ape" saw that these two people clearly wanted to humiliate themselves, and immediately raised his steps and walked towards the tent door with an angry face.

"Xingba, don't be rude." Zhang Jiao saw that he didn't speak at this time, not only did the two of them have to get married, but the news from Luoyang could not be discussed. Only then did he hurriedly say: "This is General 'Bocai' of the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan County, Yuzhou, and he has news from Luoyang. ”

Hearing the name Bocai, Xiang Cheng's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly gave Bo Cai an apologetic smile and hugged his fists by the way, saying: "General Bocai, there are a lot of them, just now my brother was open-mouthed, and he didn't mean it. After speaking, he hurriedly glanced at Gan Ning.

Bocai's name Xiang Cheng is very familiar, and this is also a talent who can command troops, but his brain may not be very good. This person can fight a frontal battle, but once he is used, his IQ defects will be completely exposed. But fortunately, Xiang Cheng thought that he was still a little wise and knew history, so he hurriedly tried to do it to Bo.

Although Gan Ning still despised this person a little, but when he saw Xiang Cheng glaring at him, Gan Ning reluctantly hugged his fist at Bo Cai and apologized.

Bocai came to Anping this time, and Zhang Jiao also said just now that this is news from Luoyang.

Yingchuan is very close to Luoyang, and it is only eight or nine days to go back and forth. After receiving the news, he also left overnight to report to Zhang Jiao, and he just arrived in Anping at noon and waited for the meeting. Unexpectedly, he ran out of two juniors and humiliated himself, and Bo Cai was really depressed.

Although Bocai is depressed, he knows that big things matter. After glaring at Gan Ning fiercely, he turned around and said to Zhang Jiao: "The Luoyang Imperial Court has suffered losses in Jizhou one after another, two of the three kings were captured by my Yellow Turban, and one abandoned and fled. ”

After Bo Cai finished saying this, he stewed for a while, and then continued after seeing Zhang Jiao's satisfied expression: "Our Yingchuan Yellow Turban received a secret report from the inside, and the Luoyang Imperial Court intends to redeem Liu Xu, the king of Anping. I don't know what a good teacher thinks? ”

After Bo Cai finished speaking, he took a half step back, waiting for Zhang Jiao's next step.

Zhang Jiao touched his beard and closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then asked, "What might you use to get out of Luoyang?" ”

Bocai came out again, squeezing out a funny smile on his ape-like face: "I heard that it is 5,000 taels of cloth and 10,000 taels of gold." However, the specific number will not be known until the people from Luoyang come. In my opinion, if there is really such a number, it is better to release Liu Xu. ”

Zhang Jiao closed his eyes and nodded after listening, and no one in the big tent was making a sound.

When Zhang Jiao finished thinking, he asked everyone in the account: "What do you generals think?" ”

"Big brother, if it's really ten thousand taels of gold, I think it's better to send this bad old man back to Liu Hong'er." It was Zhang Liang who spoke.

"Call me General Tiangong!" Zhang Jiao was a little unhappy after hearing this.

"Yes, General." Zhang Liang hurriedly replied.

After hearing Zhang Liang say this, everyone in the account also echoed this nod.

Seeing the news brought by everyone in the account and the affirmation of his proposal, Bo Cai was overjoyed at this time. As a result, before he could enjoy it for a while, there were two voices from the side that made Bo want to hit someone.

"General, I don't think it's appropriate to exchange gold and silver cloth for King Ping." The two voices completely coincided, one was Xiang Cheng, and the other was Bai Ren.

After saying this, Bai Ren and Xiang Cheng looked at each other and smiled.

"What's wrong?" asked Zhang Jiao.

Xiang Cheng was also generous, and immediately motioned for Bai Ren to say first, Bai Ren nodded slightly at Xiang Cheng and said: "I have 10,000 Yellow Turban soldiers, but this golden cloth can't buy grain and grass, if Luoyang wants King Anping, I think they should be allowed to exchange grain and grass." With that, Bai Ren lowered his head and stepped back, winking at Xiang Cheng by the way.

Bo Cai wanted to say something after hearing this, but was stopped by Zhang Jiao: "Jiyu, what about you?" Why do you think it's inappropriate? ”

"General, in addition to food and grass, our army is even more short of weapons."