Chapter 176: A Turning Point
Resolving grievances with Zhang Bao means that Zhang Huang's plan to reunite the Jizhou Yellow Turban has been carried out for most of the time, after all, even if Zhang Huang is not convinced by Zhang Huang now, at least he will no longer doubt Zhang Huang's decision.
The Jizhou Yellow Turbans, which had been divided for almost two months, finally got together again.
It didn't take long for Zhang Niujiao to send him to support Guangzong's brigade, although Zhang Huang was slightly disappointed that among the generals sent to help, there were not those Xiaoqu Shuai under Zhang Niujiao's command who had made a name for themselves and had resounding nicknames, such as "Zhang Leigong", "Zuo Zhangba", "Zuo Xiaoxiao", "President", "Huanglong", "Greentown" and so on, but after Zhang Yan's introduction, Zhang Huang felt that although these generals were not famous at the moment, their potential was extraordinary.
Yang Feng, Yu Poison, Zheng Gu, Tao Sheng, plus Zhang Yan, whom they call "Young Marshal", there is no doubt that this is the prototype of the "Five Tigers" in Montenegro in the future, each one is fiercer than the other, and one is more difficult to compete with.
What surprised Zhang Huang even more was that Zhang Yan had already met his two most loyal and trusted lieutenants, Sun Qing and Wang Dang, although the latter two are still young now, far from being able to assist the "young marshal" Zhang Yan in history, and they resisted Yuan Shao's outstanding nephew in Bingzhou, and the encirclement and suppression of Shi Gaogan in the future in Bingzhou, making the Yellow Turban of Montenegro the only sub-force with a good ending in the Yellow Turban forces.
The only stranger is the young man named Liu Shi, but it can be seen that this person is also a young general that Zhang Niujiao is cultivating.
But then again, when he saw Zhang Yan, Yang Feng, Yu Poison, Zheng Gu, and Tao Sheng, the five newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers in the future Black Mountain "Five Tigers", Zhang Huang couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Maybe others don't know, but Zhang Huang knows quite well that after these five people broke into the famous and famous, their return paths were different.
"Young Marshal" Zhang Yan finally voted for Cao Cao before the Battle of Guandu; Yang Feng, who was named the "Captain of Montenegro" by Liu Hong, the son of today, threw himself to the side of the imperial court; The fierce general of the "fierce dove" was defeated by Yuan Shao and died after the poison day; Later, he took refuge in Hanoi, who was too guarded and flamboyant, because the former was killed by Yang Chou, and after killing Yang Chou in anger, he wanted to vote for Yuan Shao, but was killed by Cao Cao; But the most incredible thing is Tao Sheng, a fierce general who calls himself "General Pinghan". I don't know what to think, in the case of joining forces with Yu Poison to break through Yecheng, he was rebelled by Yuan Shao, who was undoubtedly dead at that time, abandoned Yu Poison, and led his subordinates to save the lives of Yuan Shao and the whole family, and then directly invested in Yuan Shao's command, and finally caused Yu Poison to be defeated by Yuan Shao and died.
It is no exaggeration to say that the core of the second-generation generals of the Yellow Turban in Montenegro in the future, the five tigers of Montenegro, who occupy parts of the territory of the three states of Hebei, Hebei and Yan, finally parted ways and each was the master. This is a real pity. It is no wonder that the son of Zhang Niujiao, who is obviously ambitious, and the "young marshal" Zhang Yan had to take refuge in Cao Cao in the future, because he knew very well that at the time when the strength of the Yellow Turban in Montenegro plummeted, if he turned a blind eye to the battle between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao for hegemony, then no matter who of these two northern overlords wins, it will not be up to him to resist the balance after the autumn. In order to protect himself, and at the same time to leave room for refuge, Zhang Yan could only choose the weaker Cao Cao to take refuge. Since then, he has given up the great cause of the Yellow Turban.
Although he sighed in his heart, Zhang Huang didn't say anything at this time, after all, at this time, the "Five Tigers" of Montenegro had not even made a name for themselves. Zhang Yan's identity is only Zhang Niujiao's righteous son, and the seemingly gentle Yang Feng has no intention of throwing himself into the imperial court, and Zheng Gu did not take refuge in Hanoi Taishou Zhang Yang, as for Tao Sheng. This young general, who later called himself "General Pinghan", was still full of disgust and hatred for the court and the family, and was no different from a fanatical Taiping believer.
[Why did these five men go their separate ways in the future?] ]
There are many speculations and doubts in my mind. Zhang Huang did not leave a trace on his face and greeted these five people separately under Zhang Yan's introduction. In his opinion, if it weren't for the five tigers of Montenegro parting ways, Zhang Yan would only have Sun Qing and Wang Dang left with two small marshals around him, otherwise, no matter whether Yuan Shao or Cao Cao won the battle of Guandu, they would never underestimate the Yellow Turban forces in Montenegro, which were in part of the territory of Merge, Hebei and Yansanzhou. In the same way, there was no need for Zhang Yan to go to Cao Cao in a low voice, and fall from the lord of one force to the subordinate of the other.
On the other hand, Zhang Bao's troops are much smaller than Zhang Niujiao's, and more importantly, there are almost no generals who can leave a name in history, except for two generals, one is called Gao Sheng and the other is called Yan Zheng. The former died at the hands of the fierce general Zhang Fei when he followed Zhang Bao to attack the official army in history, while the latter actually assassinated the lord Zhang Bao and prepared to surrender with his head.
There is nothing to say about Gao Sheng's Zhang Huang, after all, even if Zhang Huang reminds him that he must flee immediately when he faces a guy named Zhang Fei in the future, he will definitely be regarded as crazy by Gao Sheng; As for Yan Zheng...... Zhang Huang couldn't figure out how this general, who seemed to be obedient to the words and deeds of the lord Zhang Bao, could poison the latter in the future.
As Zhang Huang had calculated before, after gathering most of Zhang Niujiao and Zhang Bao's troops, the number of Yellow Turban troops in his Guangzong City really reached the terrifying number of 150,000. It's a pity that most of them are just strong men pulled by Zhang Niujiao and Zhang Bao from the pro-Yellow Turban people in Bingzhou and Anping Kingdom, not to mention that they have no combat experience, and some have not even been trained at all.
"General Digong and Senior Brother actually handed over this kind of 'soldier' to Guangzong?"
When considering the reorganization of the army, Zhang Huang really couldn't help but express his dissatisfaction to the representatives of the two parties in charge of this matter, namely Zhang Yan and Yan Zheng. After all, he was quite happy after seeing the number of people at first, but after really understanding the strength of these two support armies, he was greatly disappointed, because it was even worse than the rabble.
Where is the elite of Zhang Niujiao and Zhang Bao?
Seeing that Zhang Huang's face was full of displeasure, Zhang Yan and Yan Zheng explained the reason in detail. It turned out that before Zhang Huang wrote a letter asking for help, Zhang Niujiao was preparing to attack the rest of the counties in Bingzhou, and Zhang Bao was already preparing to attack Youzhou in the north, but after most of the soldiers and horses in their hands were sent out, they received Zhang Huang's letter asking for help. Some of them have been through a lot of battles. Some of them are not capable of fighting at all.
In this way, it is no wonder that almost none of the Xiaoqu commanders under Zhang Niujiao's command, who have broken through their prestige and have a loud thief's horn, did not come, because they were busy attacking the rest of the counties and counties of the state.
[Forget it, after all, there is an absolute advantage in numbers, and under the tactics of the sea of people, even Lu Zhi may not dare to use troops against Guangzong lightly......]
Facing Zhang Yan and Yan Zheng, who both showed embarrassed expressions, Zhang Huang could only comfort himself like this.
Suddenly, Zhang Huang was stunned, as if vaguely aware of something, and asked tentatively. "I don't know where the veterans under the command of General Digong and Senior Brother are now?"
This was a vague premonition that something was not good, but unexpectedly, the answer of the two really made Zhang Huang stunned.
"The Han court recently appointed a new assassin in Bingzhou, that is, Ding Yuan and Ding Jianyang, who served as the 'Captain of Wumeng', this person was originally stationed in Hanoi, and after taking office, he dared to lead troops to attack my Montenegro twice, which made my father-in-law angry, and ordered to kill Ding Yuan first, and then merge the state ......" [PS: It is written in the romance that Ding Yuan was killed by Dong Zhuo when he was the assassin of Jingzhou?! Version?! The official historical data shows that the Jingzhou assassin during this period was Wang Rui, who had a grudge with Sun Jian and was later killed when Sun Jian attacked Dong Zhuo. After Wang Rui, the assassin of Jingzhou was Liu Biao, and he had the impression that Ding Yuan's soldiers were in Hanoi, and after being summoned by He Jin, he went directly to Luoyang, and later became the ruling Jinwu. So how did this Jingzhou thorn history come about? No matter how you look at it, it's also a matter of merging states, I don't understand. Hmm, the author here still takes the history of the Jingzhou Thorn as Ding Yuan, and takes the history of the Jingzhou Thorn as Wang Rui. 】
"General Digong ordered Cheng Zhiyuan to be the main general. Deng Mao was the deputy general, and led his troops to the north to conquer Youzhou, and it is said that the two of them had already attacked Zhuojun......"
[…… it! ]
Although Zhang Huang had a vague premonition of something. I couldn't help but be shocked by these two answers, and my brain was sweating.
Ding Yuan and Ding Jianyang, some people may disagree with them, but in fact, Ding Yuan is a heroic man who is comparable to Dong Zhuo and Sun Jian in terms of martial arts, skilled in archery and horses, good at commanding cavalry, and more importantly, this guy has a righteous son who can be called invincible in the world, Lu Bu and Lu Fengxian! Lu Bu in the people and the red rabbit in the horse refer to this person.
[PS: After typing a typo, I found an interesting phenomenon, Ma Zhong Chitu == Ma Zhong Chitu? Could it be that the original meaning of these eight words is that Lu Bu will eventually be pinched (referring to death)? And Ma Zhong will eventually get the Red Rabbit? Sure enough, it's heaven's way! Ha, the random explanation made everyone laugh. 】
Zhang Huang didn't know when Ding Yuan accepted Lu Bu as his righteous son, but counting the days, it was impossible for him to participate in the war in the area of Yanmen County or even further northwest, that is, the war with the Xiongnu, and that was exactly Lu Bu's hometown, after all, Lu Bu was from Jiuyuan. Does this mean that the current Lu Bu has already taken the position of chief bookkeeper under Ding Yuan?
As soon as he thought of this possibility, Zhang Huang couldn't help but gasp in shock, you must know that although Ding Yuan is fierce, he is slightly inferior to Dong Zhuo and Sun Jian, but if this person is coupled with his Lu Fengxiao, who is almost invincible alone, and can kill the leader of the enemy army single-handedly even in thousands of troops, and the future Lu Wenhou, it will be terrible. Not to mention a bull's horn, even if all the generals of the Black Mountain Yellow Turban at this time went into battle, whether they could hurt Lu Bu who was holding Fang Tian's halberd, Zhang Huang didn't have the slightest confidence.
And Yan Zheng's words are even more incredible, Cheng Zhiyuan and Deng Mao, the two Yellow Turban Army Qu Shuai and Xiao Qu Shuai, who recorded the earliest deaths in the book, how could their "prestige" Zhang Huang not know? It is no exaggeration to say that it was because these two guys went to attack Liu Yan, the Taishou of Youzhou, that Liu Yan issued a notice to recruit brave men in the territory in desperation, thus involving Liu Bei, Liu Xuande, Guan Yu, Guan Yunchang, Zhang Fei, Zhang Yide, the three brothers who formed a righteous relationship.
Liu Bei, who will be the master of the people in the future, will not mention it for the time being, but Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have been one of the outstanding representatives of fierce generals since ancient times in Zhang Huang's impression, the former is Guan Yu, who was later enshrined as a "martial saint", and the latter is a domineering and fierce military general who retreated from Cao Cao's army in Dangyangqiao.
You must know that Zhang Huang had previously hoped that he would go to Zhuojun to see if he could subdue Guan Yu or Zhang Fei by chance, and even if he couldn't accept it, he would leave a good impression, after all, they were one of the few fierce generals who were qualified to fight with Lu Bu and retreat with their whole body, and they couldn't find a few in the whole world.
But now it's okay, Zhang Bao sent Cheng Zhiyuan and Deng Mao to attack Youzhou, involving one master and two subordinates of the "Taoyuan Three Alliances", one master and two heroes; And Zhang Niujiao went to attack Ding Yuan in Hanoi again, and maybe he would lead Lu Bu out.
Lu Bu, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, the three fierce generals who were among the best in the military generals in the late Han Dynasty, suddenly became enemies, how can this not be called Zhang Huang's head? You must know that not to mention three, even if it is one, he can't beat it. It should be said that unless Zhang Liang, the general of the people, went out in person, no one on his side would be able to resist the three fierce generals.
Thinking of this, Zhang Huang was a little disheartened, and waved his hand to ask Zhang Yan and Yan Zheng to retreat.
Originally, he planned to take advantage of Lu Zhi, who was right, not knowing the strength of his 150,000 army, to send troops to see if there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, but at the moment, he would never dare. Because in his memory, Liu Bei was Lu Zhi's disciple, and after destroying Cheng Zhiyuan and Deng Mao's army, he took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, two righteous brothers, to Guangzong to help Lu Zhi.
If troops are sent at this time, it will be fine if Liu Guanzhang is not there, but if these three people are here, it will definitely turn into a one-sided massacre.
[I hope Lu Zhi doesn't know how powerful Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are......]
Zhang Huang, who had made up his mind and swore not to die in Guangzong, secretly hoped.
And in fact, as he expected, Cheng Zhiyuan and Deng Mao really involved Liu Guanzhang and the Taoyuan Three Alliances, and the latter came to Guangzong immediately after assisting Zou Jing, the governor of Zhuo County, to defeat the Yellow Turban Army, hoping to help the teacher Lu Zhi.
God is pitiful, whether it is Lu Zhi in history or Lu Zhi now, it seems that he has never noticed that the two big men next to his disciple Liu Bei are definitely the world's leading fierce generals, and they are still above Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian, and Ding Yuan by personal force alone.
Seeing that Zhang Huang was killed and did not leave Guangzong, Lu Zhi finally asked Liu Bei to take the poor five hundred soldiers to Yingchuan to support Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, after all, as far as he knew, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, the two leading generals of the imperial court, seemed to have been defeated repeatedly in the hands of Yingchuan Yellow Turban Qu Shuai Bocai, and the defeat made Lu Zhi feel inexplicable.
Unfortunately, Lu Zhi, who was bent on ending the rebellion of the Yellow Turban Army, finally missed this excellent opportunity to end the rebellion right away and let Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei go.
At this time, Huangmen Zuofeng, on the order of Liu Hong, the son of heaven, arrived at the camp of the Northern Army in the name of rewarding and comforting the army.
Maybe God is really fair, and while giving Lu Zhi a great opportunity, he also gave Zhang Huang a chance.
A chance to turn the tide of battle! (To be continued......)