Hanoi is one of the "Three Rivers" to which the Lieutenant Department belongs. In terms of the degree of wealth, it far exceeds Taiyuan. However, Zhang Yang was originally one of the confidants of the general He Jin, and he had never had much friendship with the Yuan family. Even with Dong Zhuo, the unanimous enemy, Zhang Yang did not have the idea of going south to work for Yuan Shao.

However, when the letter of help from the Taiyuan Wang family arrived again, Zhang Yang made up his mind and prepared to attack.

Although Dong Zhuo is powerful, he is currently facing pressure from the Kwantung princes, and it is impossible to go to Bingzhou to find trouble with Zhang Yang. However, the wolf-like Taixing army can directly threaten Zhang Yang's safety.

If Taiyuan is lost, the threat to the party becomes very immediate. The so-called "cold lips and teeth", in the face of the direct threat created by the remnants of the Yellow Turban, Zhang Yang was naturally unwilling to sit still. After careful calculation, he left only 1,000 men to guard the party, and the remaining 3,000 elite soldiers all went north to fight with him.

As for Zhang Yang's choice to stay in the party, it was precisely in the "espionage case" a few days ago that he was confirmed by himself to have nothing to do with the Taixing Army. With his solid personal ability, it was enough for Shangdang to defend the main cities in the territory without losing when attacked by an enemy army of less than 5,000.

As soon as the Shangdang army was dispatched, the arrogance of the troops twenty miles outside Jinyang City was obtained, and detailed information was obtained the next day. Thanks to the "Earth Master" Zhang Bao in charge, the "Green Winged Bat" Wei Xiao is in charge of the powerful spy system, and Zhang Yang has an understanding of the internal composition of Zhang Yang's department and the character of the generals.

Therefore, for the development of the future war situation, it can be called arrogant, not only does not bother Zhang Yangjun's arrival at all, but looks forward to Zhang Yangjun's actions faster.

After conquering Pingtao and opening up the passage to attack Jinyang, the Taixing army was at a time when morale was high. Although in the newly occupied counties. The local powerful forces still popped up from time to time to find some trouble, but it did not prevent Zhang Yang from starting to concentrate the main force, intending to give Zhang Yang a good look.

Jinyang City has a long history. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Dong Anyu, a retainer of Zhao Jianzi, the secretary of the Jin State, built a city on the north bank of Jinshui at the northern end of the Taiyuan Basin, on the east side of the Hanging Urn Mountain. It's for Jinyang. Since then, Jinyang has become a heroic city in northern China, which has survived for thousands of years.

Since Emperor Wu of the Great Han Dynasty divided the world into 13 Thorn History Department, Jinyang has always been the seat of the Assassin History Department of Bingzhou. The circumference of the city is more than six miles, the height of the city wall is more than four zhang, and there is living water drawn from Jinshui as a moat around it, and the inhabitants are about 10,000 households.

Since he had carefully inspected Jinyang City, Zhang Qi had no idea of storming Jinyang. With the fortification of this city, unless insolence is at all costs. Take out the siege equipment in your hand as a hidden card, and you will probably be able to overcome it with three points. Otherwise, with the current strength in his hands, he would not have the confidence to attack Jinyang at all.

However, not being able to storm Jinyang does not mean that Zhang Qiang cannot attack Jinyang. No matter how strong a city is, it needs to be guarded. If Jinyang becomes an isolated city, there will be no reinforcements outside. There is no food and grass in it, even if the gods are coming. I can't continue to hold on.

Of course, if you want to compete with Jinyang City for the amount of grain in stock, it is naturally impossible for Zhang Qi to have this kind of confidence. But if the Taixing army can defeat the enemy army who came to the rescue, the defenders who want to come to Jinyang will not have too strong a heart of resistance.

According to the information known to Zhang Mad , the powerful people in Jinyang City sent requests for help to Yanmen and Shangdang respectively. For this. Zhang Mad had already ordered Zang Ba, who was staying in the area of Taihang Mountain, to launch an attack on Yanmen County with a part of the "Mountain Front Battalion" to contain the southward movement of the Yanmen County soldiers. As for Zhang Yang's Shangdang army, Zhang Mad is trying to seize the strategic place of Shangdang. Zhang Yangruo is here. But it just fits the insolent mind.

According to the known information, Zhang Yan could estimate that even if Zhang Yang traveled all the way, it would take at least five days before he could come to the vicinity of Jinyang City and make contact with the Taixing army. The waiting time in the past few days is just enough for the Taixing army to recharge and recover from the fatigue accumulated in nearly half a month of fighting.

Moreover, taking advantage of this vacancy, insolence can also complete a ritual that can greatly enhance the admiration of his subordinates. After the ceremony is held, the fully condensed military spirit will leave a deep impression on the tired Zhang Yangjun from afar!

As the spiritual pillar of the Taixing Army, Taiping Dao has long been infiltrated into every move of the entire legion. Due to the addition of religion, the spirit of fighting and fighting to the death of the Taihang soldiers obviously surpassed that of ordinary Han army regiments.

There are pros and cons to this situation.

Of course, the advantage is that it has greatly strengthened the combat effectiveness of the Taixing army, which is of great benefit to stabilizing the popular sentiment of the civilians under the rule. However, the disadvantage is that the influence of the Taiping Taoist Order in the military and the people is increasing day by day, and if you want to establish effective administrative rule in the future, you will inevitably have to have a power conflict with the Taiping Taoist Order.

If Zhang Qi is willing to adopt the ruling policy of "unity of church and state", the development of Taiping Dao will of course be as strong as possible. However, he was familiar with the constraints on the social development of those "theocratic" countries in later generations, and he did not have the slightest idea of adopting this political model. Therefore, in the future, the Taiping Taoist Order, in the relationship with the arrogance, sooner or later there will be a clear break.

For this trouble, Zhang Qiang knows well, and of course he will secretly design it early.

In addition, those families who have become strong by relying on family scriptures naturally have enough resistance to the low-level religion of Taiping Dao. Even at present, Zhang Qiang has become the official "envoy of the Huns" of the Han Dynasty, and has become a high-ranking official with a rank of 2,000 stones. But among the world's big families, and even the entire scholar class, he still belongs to the first-class "Yellow Turban Remnant" and is despised by the world's scholars.

Fortunately, Zhang Qiang didn't have much hope for the support of the family. As a leader of the Sect who is currently in an extremely strong position, it would be a fool's act to abandon the foundation of his own development at this time and to be bent on gaining the support of the world's noble clans.

Although it is said that in history, warlords such as Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in the late Han Dynasty relied on the support of local tyrants to develop. But the path they were able to go through, with their arrogance, could never be done.

Therefore, a few years ago, Zhang Qiang abandoned one of the most common ideas of time-travelers, and cut off the idea of large-scale search for celebrities from the Three Kingdoms to join. Most of those celebrities of the Three Kingdoms belong to the scholar class. Wanting them to take the initiative to join the Taixing Army when their insolent strength is insufficient, is tantamount to a fool's dream.

You don't see, in order to get a Cheng Yu before, Zhang Madness even used the method of kidnapping, and finally entrusted the blessing of the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao before agreeing to work for Zhang Yu. And if Guan Yu hadn't been captured, and had several years of insolent water milling, he would never have joined the Taixing Army.

Without the support of the scholars, Zhang was not discouraged. As long as he insists on basic education for his subordinates, he does not believe that among the thousands of subordinates under him, he will not be able to find a few talents who can help him govern the world.

This can be seen in the "pointing" goal in the past few years. Among the young and reliable soldiers selected from the Taixing Army, Zhang Qi has successively "ignited" four or five first-class fierce generals who have not left any records in history. As for the long-lost "10,000 enemies" first-level fierce general, he will soon be arrogant again in the next two days.

May 15, sunny with a slight breeze.

More than 5,000 people from the Taixing army, plus more than 3,000 mobilized people, and more than 100 brave villagers nearby, gathered in an open field outside the camp.

In the center of the site is an earthen platform with a radius of 20 zhang and a height of about 9 feet piled up by thousands of people over several days. Just last night, the Taiping Dao "sacrificial wine" and "masters" who accompanied the army were busy all night, arranging various Taoist honor guards on the earthen platform, turning this place into a formal altar of Taiping Dao.

Many of the soldiers of the Taixing Army who watched the ceremony under the altar had seen the ceremony that was about to begin. However, even the veterans of the army who have seen it many times still show extremely focused and unusually religious appearance at this moment. As for the "newcomers" who have not yet seen everything in front of them, they stretch their necks one by one, and want to see every bit of wind and grass on the altar.

In front of the altar, a burly young warrior sat kneeling at this moment. Since yesterday, this burly young warrior has been kneeling in front of the altar, listening to several Taiping Taoist sacrificial wines on the altar and reciting the Taiping Sutra scriptures aloud, waiting for the most critical moment in his life.

This person is none other than the 100-person leader of the "Zhichong Battalion" who achieved the first place in the battle of conquering Pingtao City not long ago, and got the first merit in the siege.

The sun was rising, bringing a feeling of heat to all who were watching. Some people who are still skeptical of Taiping Road have shown some impatience. However, most of the soldiers and civilians still waited around the altar religiously, looking attentive, waiting for the miraculous scene to appear.

Suddenly, a majestic sound of bullhorns sounded from the barracks. Hearing this, all the onlookers immediately became solemn.

Immediately afterwards, a team of tall and burly elite Taixing soldiers with bright armor neatly trotted from the camp in formation. As this passage lined up by elite soldiers unfolded to the bottom of the altar, a group of knights in brocade clothes riding tall horses and shining armor surrounded a young knight in yellow robes, accepting the gaze of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, passing through the guards on both sides, and unhurriedly came to the altar.

Seeing the appearance of the yellow-robed knight, all the soldiers and people who were watching the ceremony by the altar fell to the ground one by one. From the mouths of those devout Taiping Dao believers and soldiers in the army, the mountains spit out a salutation like a tsunami, and converged into one voice:

"Heavenly Master Hail Blessed!" (To be continued......)