Chapter 137: First Sight of the Yellow Turban Army
"You wait and get ready. We started a month early. Zhang Jiao commanded weakly.
"No!" Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang hugged their fists to lead the order. Then the two of them went down in high spirits and prepared to start an incident. After the two of them left, Zhang Jiao called his henchmen, whispered something to his henchmen, and went down to make arrangements. After a while, the henchman led an unusually burly man to Zhang Jiao's bed. Also invited was Zhang Jiao's daughter Zhang Ning.
"Great Sage and Good Teacher!" When the big man saw Zhang Jiao, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.
"Get up and speak." Zhang Jiao's qi was weak, and his tone when he spoke was unusually caressing.
"Daddy!" Seeing Zhang Jiao like this, Zhang Ning's eyes instantly turned red.
"Whew!" Zhang Jiao took a deep breath, and then said softly: "Ning'er don't be sad, this is destined by God." I already know that I don't have much time to say, and I don't want to be sad in vain. Zhang Jiao slowly stretched out a hand and wiped away the tears on Zhang Ning's cheeks.
"That kid was right. It's me who underestimated everyone in the world. But it's not too late to know. Zhang Jiao looked up at the sky and said softly.
Zhang Ning and Dahan on the side were very puzzled, and they didn't know what Daddy (Daxian and Liangshi) was talking about.
"Guan Hai stepped forward to listen to the order!" Putting away his weak appearance, Zhang Jiaoqiang endured the pain in his chest and said to Dahan.
"Guan Hai takes the order!" Guan Hai hurriedly stepped forward.
"I order you to protect Miss, and then you can leave." After saying these words, Zhang Jiao's breath became even weaker. The face is also paler.
"I don't, I don't want to leave Dad. I'm going to be with my father. After listening to Zhang Jiao's words, Zhang Ning's tears instantly flowed down like a storm.
"Ning'er don't want to have a surname, you are still young. There is still a long way to go. If you hadn't left, Daddy would have died at the head of the bed right now. Zhang Jiao knew that his daughter was strong, so he could only threaten.
"But where does Daddy plan Ning'er to go?" saw that his father was actually forced to die. Zhang Ning didn't dare to go against Zhang Jiao's words, so he could only say so.
"Go to Yingchuan, didn't that kid go to Yingchuan to study?"
"Him!" Zhang Ning looked at Zhang Jiao with some surprise, of course she knew who her father was talking about.
"Guan Hai!" Zhang Jiao roared softly.
"In!"
"Quickly take Miss away and go to Yingchuan. You must protect the lady's surname with your own surname! ”
"No!" Guan Hai returned with a fist, and then hit Zhang Ning in the neck with a hand knife, knocking him unconscious. Then he picked up Zhang Ning and turned around and walked out.
Seeing that Zhang Ning was finally taken away, Zhang Jiao on the bed finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After a few more days, Zhang Jiao's body finally got a lot better. has reluctantly stood up under the support of Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang.
"Are the pro-soldiers on all sides ready to be notified?" Zhang Jiao asked Zhang Bao softly on the side.
"It's ready." Zhang Bao said softly.
"Good! Send people out immediately, and inform all parties to do things immediately. Then the two of you will prepare to pack, and I will say that I will sacrifice to the heavens. ”
"No!" Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang replied together.
The next morning, Zhang Jiao wore a gorgeous Taoist robe and a yellow scarf on his head, and came to the altar that had been prepared a long time ago.
"Open the altar and worship the sky!" Ascending the altar, Zhang Jiao held a wooden sword in his hand, pointed to the sky, and shouted: "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious." Although Zhang Jiao's body has not yet recovered, these words are full of confidence and resounding in the sky.
In the audience, before many of the congregants were all fanatical, they excitedly shouted loudly, "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious." ”
Suddenly, Zhang Jiao waved his big hand, and the people in the audience immediately stopped shouting, and at this time, Zhang Jiao shouted: "A certain person was ordered by heaven and became a 'Tiangong general'." My younger brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang are respectively 'General Digong' and 'General Rengong'. ”
"Meet General Tiangong! Meet the Digong General! Meet the General! After Zhang Jiao finished speaking, the audience bowed to the ground.
In less than half a month, there were wars in 28 counties in seven states across the country, and the Yellow Turban Army was like a broken bamboo, the states and counties were lost, and the officials fled, shaking Kyoto.
At the same time, inside the main hall of the Luoyang Imperial Palace in Kyoto. At this time, the anger was very heavy. The whole hall was filled with tension and unease.
On the throne of Jinluan, Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty knelt on the dragon chair. Holding a bamboo slip in one hand, he kept trembling.
Touch-I saw Emperor Ling angrily slam the official document on the ground, and roared angrily: "Who can tell Lone, what are the intentions of this group of chaotic ministers and thieves." What do the lonely soldiers do to eat, and in just one month, 28 counties across the country are in the midst of war. ”
At this time, under the court, a person suddenly stood up and knelt down and said: "Your Majesty is angry, and the top priority now is to organize an army to meet the thieves." "The speaker is Zuo Zhonglang General Huangfu Song.
"What the Emperor said is not bad, and the ministers will reconsider." Seeing that someone was starting, the military officials below the court bowed and said.
"The weakest lord will be wrathful; The Lord of darkness will have a glimmer of light. "Although Emperor Han Ling is a mediocre king, he also knows that once the hungry people rebel, the crown will definitely fall. He pondered for a while, and then said: "The order of the orphan worships He Jin as the general, and leads the five battalions of Yulin to the capital pavilion, and the weapons are on the hour, and the town guards the Beijing division; Since the Hangu Pass, Otani, Guangcheng, Yique, Yuyuan, Revolving Gate, Mengjin, Koheimatsu and other Kyoto Passes, it is necessary to set up a garrison to strictly guard against it, and it is necessary to let a thief enter Beijing. Then he issued an edict to all localities to strictly defend themselves, and ordered all states and counties to prepare for battle, train soldiers, count weapons, and gather rebel troops. ”
"Wait for the order!" Bow down to the lower Wu Jun.
"Your Majesty, the minister has one more thing to ask for." At this time, Huangfu Song, who was the most advanced at first, opened his mouth.
"But it doesn't hurt to say anything!"
"Back to Your Majesty, the minister believes that he should accept the ban of the party, and give the palace and the West Garden horses to the sergeants to improve morale."
"This ......" the Spirit Emperor pondered for a moment, and did not leave to answer.
At this time, another minister admonished: "The party has been suffering for a long time, and if you conspire with the Yellow Turban, I am afraid that there is no help." ”
In the end, Emperor Ling pondered for a moment, nodded and agreed: "What Qing said is very true, immediately pass on the order of orphans, say amnesty to the party members in Renzi, return the migrants, ask the ministers to donate horses and crossbows, and recommend the descendants of the generals and people with deep strategies to the bus office for interviews." ”
After Emperor Ling finished speaking, all the ministers in the court praised Emperor Ling's wisdom. This is something that the Spirit Emperor, who is addicted to wine, rarely hears. smiled with satisfaction, and then said: "Who can lead the army for Lone and exterminate the rebellion." ”
"Wish!" Huangfu Song was the first to come out and ask for his life. Subsequently, Zhu Jun, the right middle lang, also came out to ask for his life.
"The minister is willing to lead the army to Jizhou to crusade against the rebellious ministers and thieves Zhang Jiao." At this time, a righteous voice came from the hall, and it was Bei Zhonglang who took Lu Zhi and Lu Zigan.
"It's very comforting to be alone. They are all pillars of the country. Looking at the three people who asked for their lives, the Spirit Emperor grinned. The herald ordered Lu Zhiling to lead the five colonels of the Northern Army to take charge of the northern front and deal with Zhang Jiao's main force; Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun each led an army, controlling more than 40,000 people from the Five Schools, the Knights of the Three Rivers and the newly recruited elite warriors, to defeat the Yellow Turban Army in the Yingchuan area. ”
"We are commanded!" The three of them hurriedly bowed.
Just when Emperor Ling was about to order the retreat from the court, Zhu Junyou, the right middle man on the side, said: "Your Majesty still has something to do." ”
"But it doesn't hurt to say it!" The Spirit Emperor was obviously in a good mood, and said loudly.
"The minister is willing to recruit Sun Jian of Xiapi as the Sima of the Zuo Army, take the young people in the township and recruit the elite soldiers of Huaishui and Surabaya, a total of more than 1,000 people set off with our army. Fight the thief together. ”
"Accurate!" Seeing that it was a matter of begging for thieves, Emperor Ling did not stop him, and then nodded in agreement. Then he said to a few people: "Lone is waiting for a few good news in the palace." If you have nothing to do, you will retreat, and you will quickly prepare, and if you don't say anything, you will lead the troops to fight the thief. ”
"The ministers receive orders." The ministers in the court bowed, and then they came out one after another. Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and Lu Zhi were also ready, and they led their troops to the battlefield one after another.
However, the sky did not follow people's wishes, although the Han army was strong, but it had not been conquered for a long time, which made the combat power decline. Although the Yellow Turban Army was equipped with incomplete equipment, but there were many people, and the morale of the previous Lianjie was like a rainbow, so that the Han army lost the first battle in April, Zhu Junjun was defeated by the Yellow Turban Bocai and retreated, Huangfu Song had to enter the Changshe defense with him, and was besieged by the army led by Bocai, with few officers and soldiers, and low morale.
In the city of Changshe, two young men with extraordinary bearing and Confucian robes really wandered on the deserted streets. The two young men were followed by an unusually burly strong man. At this time, the Bocai army had surrounded the entire Chang Society, and there were few officers and soldiers in the city, which made the city extremely deserted, and all the households in the city were closed. All the people in the city were extremely nervous, and the notoriety of the Yellow Turban Army had already spread all over the country. Now that the Yellow Turban Army is coming to the city again, how can it not make the people in the city frightened. But at this time, these two young men with extraordinary bearing were talking and laughing, and there was no fear on their faces. This made the people who passed by the two people sigh.
"I can't imagine that the Han army is so useless, and it can be like this in the face of a group of homeless people." A young man looked at the weak Han soldiers on the city wall, pursed his lips and said disdainfully.
"Feng Xiao's words are bad, although the Han army is strong, but it is negligent in training. And there is no momentum at all, but the Yellow Turban Army. Although they are all homeless, their momentum is like a rainbow. What's more, you don't know how fanatical the Yellow Turbans really are. Another young man said with a smile. You must know that the reason why the Yellow Turban Army won consecutive battles in the previous period was that the fanaticism of its followers was incomparable. In the face of a group of people who are not afraid of life and death, it is difficult for even a battle-hardened warrior to fight.
That's right, the two of them are Zhao Fei and Guo Jia. For the two of them to appear here, it was completely arranged by Zhao Fei. Zhao Fei knew that the Han army would be defeated and would be trapped in Changshe. So I brought Dian Wei and Guo Jia to wait early.
"Fanatic?" Guo Jia muttered these two words, and then remembered that some time ago, the Yellow Turban Army attacked the city, although it looked from a distance, but the Yellow Turban Army went forward and followed, and Guo Jia really jumped for the appearance of life and death.