The Yellow River, with its nine bends and eighteen bends, diverges in the middle reaches of Suozao and Yanjin, forming a main stream and another tributary (i.e., Jishui), which together direct the surging water of the Yellow River to the ocean. And a large area of land sandwiched between the main stream and tributaries, is called the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, where Yanjin, Yan, Baima, Lihu, Cangting, Dong'e and many other cities and counties with the Yellow River crossing civilization, it is no exaggeration to say that this land is the hub of Jizhou, Yanzhou, Jingzhaoyin, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, in the most popular words, here is the place where soldiers must fight!

The power of the Yellow Turbans in Dongjun is mainly concentrated on the land between the Yellow River from Yanjin to Cangting, and the Qu Shuai Bu Si (Si) of the Yellow Turbans of Dongjun is desperately looking east to develop his forces, hoping to conquer Gaotang, Zhu'a, Ying, Zouping, and completely consolidate the influence of the Yellow Turban forces in Pingyuan County, Jinan State, and Anle State, so as to open the channel connecting Xuzhou.

However, it is a pity that judging from the current battle situation of the Yellow Turban Army, this Lord Qu Shuai obviously has no time to take care of the east side, after all, in a few days, the general of the Han Dynasty, Huangfu Song, who seems to be reincarnated in white, will lead the army to point to this land and sweep away the last layer of obstacles before his conquest of the Yellow Turbans in Jizhou.

Puyang, the richest city in Dong County, is also the seat of the East County, Bu Si led the Taiping believers and the Yellow Turban Army to control many county towns in Dong County, and then set up the Shuai here.

In the late June of the seventh year of Guanghe, Zhang Huang, who had been in Yingchuan and Runan for several days, finally came to this relatively calm and stable city before Huangfu Song led the army to Puyang after giving up his plan to explore the life and death of the Yellow Turban in Nanyang.

This is the first time Zhang Huang has set foot on the territory of the local Yellow Turban forces, and because of this, he is inevitably a little curious about the current Puyang.

After all, most of the Yellow Turban Army is composed of civilians from low backgrounds, and even the generals among them are many illiterate and reckless men, therefore. Zhang Huang was inevitably curious about how the local Yellow Turban forces governed the city they occupied.

When approaching the city gate on the west side of Puyang, Zhang Huang stopped and carefully looked at the vicinity of the city gate. He found that except for the guards guarding the city who were replaced by yellow turban soldiers with yellow scarves on their heads, Puyang didn't seem to have changed abnormally, no, there were still so many people coming and going at the city gate. What made Zhang Huang feel relieved was that the Yellow Turban soldiers who were guarding the city here seemed to get along quite well with the people in the city, and there was no shortage of acquaintances in the county who greeted the Yellow Turban guards at the city gate.

If there is any dissatisfaction, it is only for the local yellow turban's review of the crisis.

[I'm afraid Bu Si hasn't gotten the news yet......]

Traffic. And the speed of news delivery, is undoubtedly a disadvantage of this era, Zhang Huang bet that although Dongjun is quite close to Yingchuan, Chen Guo, and Runan, and the farthest is only a dozen days away, but Bu Si, who is in Puyang at this moment, will never know that the Yingchuan Yellow Turban and the Chen State Yellow Turban have already been wiped out, and will not know that the Runan Yellow Turban has also been completely defeated, nor will he know that the next one who is about to suffer is the Nanyang Yellow Turban. Not to mention that in a short period of time, that terrible famous general Huangfu Song would raise his butcher's knife again and lead the victorious army to Dongjun.

[The review of the details is not strong enough......]

Walking into the city through the city gate, I watched the patrolling Yellow Turban guards smile and greet and chat with the people who came and went on the road. Zhang Huang frowned inadvertently.

Although Zhang Huang can be sure that Huangfu Song should still be besieging Nanyang at the moment, who can guarantee that Puyang, which is his next target, will not have Huangfu Song or the spies who have been planted by the imperial court in advance to spy on intelligence in the city at this moment?

Zhang Huang shook his head secretly.

Maybe when Taiping Dao was in a "private power". These believers can do better, but when they are really put on the stage, facing Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and Sun Jian, who are experienced in leading troops. Even Bu Si, one of Zhang Jiao's outstanding disciples, obviously has many shortcomings. It is no wonder, after all, that they have experienced so few such things, and some of them have not even touched them at all, that suddenly letting them govern a large area of territory, or lead thousands of troops to fight the enemy, will inevitably expose a lot of omissions.

Even Yingchuan Yellow Turban Qu Shuai Bocai, who was once praised by Zhang Huang as a good general, became greedy for merit and underestimated the enemy because he just swallowed the bait deliberately released by Huangfu Song, and was finally annihilated by Huangfu Song in a battle.

Thinking of this incident, Zhang Huang couldn't help but feel a little blushing, after all, before that, he was also very surprised that Yingchuan Yellow Turban Qu Shuai Bocai was able to comprehensively suppress Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, the two generals who were regarded as brave generals in the imperial court, until Li Ru debunked Huang Song's military strategy in a few words, Zhang Huang realized that it was not that Bo Cai was too weak, but that Huang Fu Song was too strong, and even if he Zhang Huang replaced Bo Cai to lead the Yingchuan Yellow Turban, I am afraid that it would be eaten by Huang Fu Song.

After all, Zhang Huang's strength lies in leading small-scale sneak raids, encounters, and scout battles, but on large-scale battlefields with tens of thousands of people, or even more than 100,000 people, he actually has no outstanding strategies except for being reckless and brave, and Huangfu Song on the other side, who was born after the famous general of Yanmen, seems to be an expert in using soldiers.

After entering the city, Zhang Huang went straight in the direction of the city guard.

After being taught by the general Zhang Liang, Zhang Huang's grasp of "qi" became more and more accurate, so even in a city surrounded by rocks, even if his own strength was greatly affected, he could clearly feel that the most powerful "qi" in this city was in the direction he was about to go. As for the owner of this "powerful breath", Zhang Huang didn't need to guess to know that it was Bu Si, after all, the latter was also an excellent disciple of Zhang Jiao, and it was said that he was quite accomplished in the thaumaturgy of "Liuding Liujia", and he could even do clouds and rain and summer snowfall, which was very good.

The city guards the mansion, as the place where the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai Bu Si of Dongjun stays, there are naturally many Yellow Turban guards guarding the mansion. No, Zhang Huang had just come here and stopped and looked at it a few times, and the Yellow Turban guards on duty had doubts in their hearts.

"Stop!" A Yellow Turban Guard stopped Zhang Huang, who was still walking towards them, frowned and asked, "This is the residence of Lord Bu Si, who are you?" Why are you here? ”

The eyes of the Yellow Turban guards who met each other showed a look of vigilance, and Zhang Huang immediately stopped, after all, they belonged to the same party and were in the same spirit, and he didn't want any misunderstanding to happen because of his recklessness.

"I ...... Coming from Jizhou. "I thought about it. Zhang Huang said to the guards, "General Rengong sent me as a special envoy to meet with Marshal Bu Siqu, hoping that the brothers would give me convenient permission. ”

In order to hide people's eyes, Zhang Huang did not report his identity as the commander-in-chief of the Yellow Turbans in the world, but pretended to be in the name of Zhang Liang, however, he greatly underestimated the status of Zhang Liang, the general of the People's Government, in Taiping Dao and the Yellow Turban Army.

"General Rengong?" The guards exclaimed in surprise, their faces suddenly showing a bit of awe and shock.

"Yes...... Do you have a certificate? ”

"Credentials? What credentials? Zhang Huang was stunned when he heard this, where did he know what was Zhang Liang's credential.

“……”

Seeing that Zhang Huang couldn't take out the voucher for a long time. The guards, who had been in awe of him, suddenly had a look of vigilance and suspicion in their eyes. Even, after they glanced at each other, they surrounded Zhang Huang with weapons in hand. You don't have to guess to know that most of these people regard Zhang Huang as a spy.

"That's a ......"

Zhang Huang really couldn't laugh or cry at this, he originally wanted to have more than one thing, but he didn't expect it to be extraordinary.

However, he did not panic, but asked with a smile, "Don't worry, everyone. When General Rengong sent me, he actually gave me a lot of things, but I don't know which one of them is the proof in your mouth? Brothers, you may wish to make it clear. I'll look for it. ”

The Yellow Turban guards couldn't figure out the details of Zhang Huang's identity, but they didn't dare to make a mistake, and one of them said, "It's a token engraved with the word 'human'." ”

"I see." Zhang Huang nodded. Reaching out and taking out a Dao talisman from his waist, he said with a smile in his mouth, "Don't worry, everyone. Isn't that the proof? As he spoke, a gleam flashed in his eyes, and it disappeared in a flash.

The Yellow Turban Guards were stunned, it was obviously a piece of rune paper, but in their eyes, it had become a token with the word 'human' engraved on it, but it was different from what they knew.

"It doesn't seem right...... muttered one of the Yellow Turban Guards, "as far as I know, General Rengong's token is Xiangyun, why are you square?" ”

"Oh?" The corners of Zhang Huang's mouth raised slightly, and he said with a smile, "Brothers, right?" My piece is indeed auspicious clouds! ”

The Yellow Turban Guards were stunned again when they heard this, because when they looked carefully, the square token just now had really become a token with auspicious clouds as the edge.

[Could it be that you just looked away?] ]

The Yellow Turban Guards looked at each other.

Seeing their daytime appearances, Zhang Huang couldn't help but feel a little proud of his success, after all, he was not good at illusions, but it was not a problem to deceive a few ordinary soldiers who didn't know illusions.

And at this moment, I suddenly heard a cold snort from the door of the mansion.

"......" Zhang Huang frowned when he heard this, because he knew that the cold snort had broken his illusion.

"Who are you? Why are you teasing my men? ”

When Zhang Huang turned his head to look at the gate of the mansion, a man in his thirties walked out of the gate, wearing a yellow auspicious cloud uniform of Taiping Road, and his face was full of unswerving color.

"Lord Bu Si!" The Yellow Turban guards were shocked to see this person, and they couldn't care about glaring angrily at Zhang Huang who was teasing them, and they all bowed their heads and hugged their fists at the visitor.

[This person is Bu Si?] ]

Zhang Huang was slightly surprised, he felt that although Bu Si looked thin, but the "breath" was very powerful, if he guessed correctly, this person should be a Taiping Dao disciple specializing in Xuanmen Dao Method, it is incredible that the pressure brought by this person to Zhang Huang is far above Ma Yuanyi at the beginning, and it is only inferior to Tang Zhou.

After secretly estimating the strength of the two sides, Zhang Huang had to admit that if he didn't rely on the power of the demon soul "Yiwu", he would definitely not be the opponent of the Yellow Turban Qu Marshal of Dongjun on his own.

[I didn't expect the strength of the local Qu Shuai to be so powerful...... Could it be that Bocai and Peng Tuo are also at this level? Wait, if you say that, the strength of Huangfu Song's side will be even more amazing......]

Frowning and thinking, Zhang Huang actually walked into the mansion with his feet.

His move made Bu Si, who was originally a little dissatisfied with him, look surprised.

"You ......"

"Let's talk about it in the house!"

Interrupting Bu Si's words, Zhang Huang took the lead in stepping into the mansion under the former's stunned gaze.

Seeing this, a trace of consternation flashed in Bu Si's eyes.

Unlike Li Ru, a wild road demon sorcerer who learned from Confucianism, Bu Si learned one of the orthodoxy of Xuanmen Taoism, that is, the "Liuding Liujia" thaumaturgy that can call the wind and rain, and is a veritable Xuanmen Taoist. Because of this, before Zhang Huang could detect his aura, Bu Si had already sensed that there was a new master with a powerful aura in the city, and this person was coming straight to his accommodation.

Out of suspicion, Bu Si took the initiative to show up to see what was going on, but he didn't want to see Zhang Huang use low-level illusions to deceive the guards outside his mansion.

Seeing this, Bu Si, who was unswerving in his heart, snorted coldly and cracked the other party's trick, but what made him wonder was that after the trick was exposed, the other party was not afraid or frightened at all, but walked into the mansion in a big way, as if he was the owner of this mansion.

And what surprised Bu Si even more was the look in Zhang Huang's eyes when he looked at him, the kind of eyes that seemed to be the way the superior looked at his subordinates.

[Could it be that he is really an envoy from Jizhou?] ]

With a roll of his eyes, Bu Si hurriedly rushed up.

Walking into the hall of the mansion, Bu Si suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, because he found that this master was really unceremonious, and after entering the hall, he sat on the main seat without saying a word, and looked at him who was walking in from the outside with an elusive expression.

[Is it the envoy of Jizhou or the spy of the Han Court, let me deceive him!] ]

Bu Si made up his mind in his heart, after all, no matter what happened, he was also the commander of the Yellow Turban of Dongjun, so naturally it was impossible for him to be convinced of his identity as an envoy because of Zhang Huang's few words.

However, before he could speak, Zhang Huang took the lead in saying something that made his face change greatly.

"The brothers of Yingchuan are finished, and the brothers of Chen Guo are also finished, and they are all wiped out. Although the brethren of Runan were not completely wiped out, I am afraid that they had lost at least six or seven percent. As for the brethren in Nanyang...... I'm afraid it's also more auspicious. Bu Si, your Dongjun is already the last southern barrier of my Jizhou army! ”

"Hiss......"

Bu Si gasped, his face was as earthy as color.

At this moment, he no longer cares about Zhang Huang's identity, because Zhang Huang's revelation seems to have made him eat a stuffy stick head-on, and his eyes are full of stars.

"How...... How can it be?! What about Bocai? What about Pengtuo? Nanyang also has Zhang Mancheng ......"

"I don't know what's going on at the moment, but Peng Tuo...... Already dead in battle. As for Zhang Mancheng in Nanyang, I don't think he can stop Huangfu Song. With that, he stood up, walked straight to Bu Si, and said in a deep voice, "Order to prepare for war, when Huangfu Song conquers Nanyang, the next target is this Puyang, and now we start preparing for war, maybe it's too late to ......."

“…… Be! Bu Si glanced at Zhang Huang deeply, then turned around and left.

Now, he no longer doubts Zhang Huang's identity, after all, Zhang Huang's tone of mentioning Taiping Dao and the Yellow Turban when he spoke has convinced Bu Si that this person is a brother of the same sect, and as for the vaguely condescending tone, Bu Si has already guessed Zhang Huang's identity.

In Taiping Dao and even the Yellow Turban, one Qu Shuai is already a very high position, since the young man in front of him faintly regards him as a subordinate as Qu Shuai, then, the identity of the other party is already about to come out.

The new head of Taiping Dao, the commander-in-chief of the Yellow Turban in the world, the commander of the Yellow Turban Qu in Jizhou, the little heavenly master, Zhang Sheng, Zhang Baiqi!

But is it really too late?

In fact, Zhang Huang himself is not sure about this. But he still wanted to see and see the terrifying military strength of Huangfu Song's Yellow Turban Army that swept through Yingchuan, Chenguo, Runan, and Nanyang, which was comparable to the terrifying military strength of the Northern Army. (To be continued......)