Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Way of the Peace!
On the sixth day of December, a blockbuster news centered on Luoyang spread to all corners of the Han Dynasty: Taiping Dao plotted to rebel! The thief opened his horn and punished the nine clans. Whoever believes in the www.biquge.info of the pen, fun and pavilion, once verified, will be killed. Ma Yuanyi, the head of the Taiping Road thieves in Luoyang District, was split in the city by car, and more than 1,000 followers were beheaded.
When Zhang Jiao heard the news, he called on believers all over the world to rise up against Han with the slogan "The sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand".
Nanyang Wancheng, 10,000 young people recruited to fight against bandits, turned into yellow scarves, and became Taiping Taoists!
Zhang Mancheng and Ma Yuanyi are brothers and sisters, and they are righteous brothers! Hearing that Ma Yuanyi was torn apart at the mouth of Luoyang City, Zhang Mancheng was furious! led the yellow turban wrestler, took the lead in breaking through the county guard's mansion, and dragged Chu Gong out naked directly from the embroidery of the ninth lady of Chu Junshou's house!
Chu Gong was frightened, sobbing and begging Zhang Mancheng to spare his life for the sake of his love for each other in the past! He couldn't have imagined that the Taiping Dao, which taught people to do good deeds on weekdays, had turned into a thief who wanted to overthrow the rulers of the Han Dynasty!
From the bottom of my heart, if it weren't for the help of this Chu County Shou, Zhang Mancheng would have been extremely difficult to create such a situation of hundreds of thousands of believers for Taiping Dao in the Nanyang area! But it is precisely because he has won the trust of Chu Countykeeper, Zhang Mancheng knows how filthy this elegant and noble celebrity county guard is behind his back! And this is exactly the scum that Zhang Mancheng joined Taiping Dao and vowed to clean up, and vowed to overthrow the rule!
A flash of white light flashed, and the ghost-headed knife swung through! Chu Gong's skulls rolled down on the bluestone floor! Blood spurted out from Chu Gong's neck cavity, drenching Zhang Mancheng's body, and in the flash of fire, Zhang Mancheng was like a god and Buddha descending into the world!
"The eternal foundation of Taiping Dao, Zhang Tianshi's road to heaven, it is up to me, Zhang Mancheng, to follow the first step!" Zhang Mancheng roared angrily, opened the Han Dynasty, the first Taiping disciple to respond to Zhang Jiao's call!
Nanyang County, Wancheng, Zhang Mancheng angrily beheaded the county guard Chu Gong, and the head was hung on the city gate to sacrifice the flag!
The county lieutenant who rushed to the rescue after hearing the news was besieged outside the county guard by the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Mancheng, and 3,000 county soldiers, whether they fought or surrendered, were all killed.
Within half a day, Nanyang Dachengwan completely fell into the hands of the Yellow Turban Army. It's staggering how quickly the situation has collapsed! Among them, I have to say that Chu Gong County Guard has helped Taiping Dao a lot!
At the same time, the Four Bandit Alliance, which was approaching Fuyang County, suddenly changed its door and announced that it would join the Yellow Turban Army! Everyone was tied with yellow scarves and became disciples of Zhang Mancheng. Claiming to be an army of 100,000 to the outside world, they rushed straight to the nearest Fuyang County!
Under the encouragement of the Li family, the soldiers and civilians of Fuyang are looking forward to the arrival of the reinforcements promised by Chu Junshou! Unexpectedly, before the reinforcements arrived, Wancheng fell, but the bad news that Chu Gong was killed arrived first!
There are only tens of thousands of people in Fuyang County, and there are only a few thousand young people who can fight, how can they resist the menacing Yellow Turban army?
What's even worse is that the Yellow Turban Army's internal response has already spread the news of the fall of Wancheng in the city! The anti-thief courage that the Fuyang Li clan finally gathered was wiped out under the blow of gossip! There are Yellow Turban believers who opened the city gate at night! caused thousands of soldiers and civilians to seize the city gate and flee, and Fuyang City collapsed without a fight!
The vanguard of the Yellow Turban Army, incarnated by the Four Great Bandit Alliance, 5,000 people, took advantage of the situation to hunt down and kill the soldiers and civilians of Fuyang! Seeing that the situation was not good, the convoy of more than 100 people of the Li family broke away from the fleeing team and tried to detour the trail! But he was pursued by a team of more than 500 elite yellow turban thieves! The head of the Li family, the eldest son Li Neng, and more than 80 private soldiers were killed one after another. In desperation, a team of less than 100 people suddenly appeared, well-equipped and of high quality personnel, far surpassing the Yellow Turban Army of more than 500 people!
In less than half an hour of fierce fighting, the Yellow Turban Army was defeated, and less than 100 people escaped. The remaining 20 or so women, children, families and belongings of the Li family in Fuyang were spared.
Since the fall of Wancheng, Fuyang has fallen, Fuyang to Wancheng line, where the Yellow Turban Army went, the soldiers and civilians fled, and the county fell one after another. Half of the entire Nanyang County belongs to the Yellow Turban Army.
Xu Xuan, the assassin of Jingzhou, was shocked and urgently summoned Qin Jie, the lieutenant of Jiangxia County, as the new county guard of Nanyang, and was fully responsible for suppressing the Yellow Turban thieves in the Nanyang area.
After Qin Jie received the order, he led the 1,000 Jiangxia soldiers of his headquarters not to rush north, but to set up a large camp in the Deng County and Caiyang areas in the south of Nanyang. Resettle refugees, recruit young and strong, gather squires to raise food, grass and ordnance, and discuss counterinsurgency plans.
Qin Jie's strategy of choosing to avoid the enemy's edge and slowly planning is undoubtedly the wisest. The southern part of Nanyang was preserved, and to a certain extent, the unlimited expansion of the Yellow Turban Army was also curbed. However, the preservation of the south means temporarily abandoning the area around Wancheng and the area north of Wancheng.
For Hejiazhuang, which is located in the northwest of Wancheng, they will have no way to escape except for Funiu Mountain behind them. Without reinforcements, sticking to and waiting for reinforcements will be the main theme of Hejiazhuang in the next few months.
In the cold wind of Nanyang in December, He Xian stood in front of the large map of the study in a azure cloth robe. The map shows the distribution of forces of Zhang Mancheng's Yellow Turban Army and Qin Jie's Han Army.
The yellow arrow representing the Yellow Turban Army is centered on the two points of Wancheng and Fuyang County, and the soldiers are pointing directly at the surrounding counties, which has the potential to sweep Nanyang. Historically, the Yellow Turban Army did sweep the entire Nanyang and Yingchuan regions. The black arrows representing the Han army now stop at the junction of northern Jingzhou and southern Nanyang. This black arrow may be able to reach Wancheng, but it can't pacify the chaos of Nanyang. Since the battle of Wuchu Village, He Xian has lost trust in Qin Jie, a famous general in Jiangxia. The force that can be relied on will be the elite army of the Han Central Army, led by Zhu Jun a few months later.
His cheap father, He Jin has been appointed by the emperor as a general, Feng Shenhou, and led the left and right Yulin and the five battalions of soldiers to stay in Luoyang Duting, and set up weapons on the hour to guard Luoyang.
The so-called "Duting" is the herald in the capital. During the Qin and Han dynasties, there was a pavilion in ten miles, and the county seat was placed in the capital pavilion. To put it simply, it is a place for pedestrians to rest and stay. And He Jintun's troops in Duting actually led the army to defend ten miles outside Luoyang City to defend the Beijing Division.
The Yulin Army is the most famous and historical emperor's forbidden army in ancient China. From the Western Han Dynasty, that is, the forbidden army founded by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the original name was "Jianzhang Camp Cavalry", named after the guard Jianzhang Palace, and later changed to Yulin, taking the meaning of "for the country's wings, such as the prosperity of the forest". There are 800 cavalry on the left and 900 cavalry on the right side of Yulin, which is a total of 1,700 elite cavalry.
The so-called "five battalions" are the famous "five captains" of the Han Dynasty's Northern Army, although there are only 5,000 people, but they are the guards of the Han Dynasty guarding the Beijing Division, and they are the elite and main force of the Han Dynasty's standing army. It is divided into five captains, including tun cavalry, infantry, Yue cavalry, Changshui, and shooting, with 1,000 people per school, which is equivalent to the 38th Army of later generations.
In addition, the valley around Luoyang (now the northeast of Lingbao, Henan), Taigu (now the southeast of Luoyang, Henan), Guangcheng (now Linruxi, Henan), Yique (now Yique Mountain, Luoyang, Henan), Tin Yuan (now on the southeast of Yanshi, Henan), Hugao (now southwest of Xibianshui Town, Xingyang, Henan), Mengjin (now northeast of Mengjin, Henan), Xiaopingjin (now northeast of Mengjin, Henan, an important ferry port of the Yellow River in ancient times) and other eight passes set up a school captain, each with a thousand elite guards.