Chapter 190: Zhang Jiao conferred the head
One sentence asked Zhang Jiao's heart, these days he has been asking himself constantly, the carefully planned Yellow Turban Uprising from a vigorous beginning to a quiet defeat, only lasted a little more than a year, why did it fail? Whether the enemy is too cunning, or he is too incompetent, maybe it's both, maybe -- Zhang Jiao can't find the crux of the problem at all, and he gathers millions of people, and the momentum is huge, but in the end he is anticlimactic and dies without a problem.
Seeing that he was speechless, Liu Ze smiled slightly and said: "Zhang Jiao, the reason why you failed, one is not that you don't understand the truth available to the people, the people of the world are like water, water can carry boats, and can also overturn boats, at the beginning of the incident, you connived at Zhang Liang, Cheng Yuanzhi and others to kill the people, rape and plunder, and completely lost the hearts of the people. The poor people who were oppressed by the court and had no way out of life were originally looking forward to the Yellow Turban Army, thinking that they could have a bright future, but the brutal behavior of the Yellow Turban Army completely cooled the hearts of the people. β
Zhang Jiao muttered: "Water can carry a boat, and it can also capsize a boat...... Is it really so terrible for the people? β
Liu Ze smiled indifferently and said: "Second, there is no strategic vision, the tactics are dull, and they only know that they stick to one city and one pool, and many fortified cities that are surrounded and difficult to overcome will not hesitate to attack at a cost, and the yellow turbans of Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Yingchuan, and Nanyang are fighting for themselves, and even if they don't save them, the final result can only be broken one by one, and the gains and losses of one city and one place are so important?" β
Zhang Jiao was stunned again, Liu Ze's words were right in the middle, Zhang Jiao didn't think about gathering the Yellow Turban forces in Henan and Hebei. But Henan's Yellow Turban Army captured a large number of cities, thinking about it again and again, he was finally reluctant to give up, and finally watched Huangfu Song encroach on the cities of Henan one by one, and Henan's Yellow Turban Army was also wiped out. Why is it that today has ended miserably. Zhang Jiao smiled bitterly: "If you lose, you will lose." Talking too much is useless and only adds to your troubles. β
Liu Ze smiled unabated: "The future teacher does not forget, the teacher of the past, and the lessons of history are for future generations." Always an endless fortune. It doesn't matter if it's the people's will. Tactics too. In the end, the way to the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army was determined by the lack of an outstanding handsome talent, a man who could strategize. The leaders who won a thousand miles, Zhang Liang, Zhang Bao, Bocai, Zhang Mancheng, Zhao Hong, Han Zhong, Bu Ji, Wan Bing, Wu Huan, and Liu Shi Although they are each a party commander, they are uneven, and they have no ability to govern the army, and they have no strategy to break the enemy, and they are more than a star and a half worse than the commanders Huang Fu Song and Zhu Jun among the officers and soldiers. β
Zhang Jiao seemed to have an understanding, and sighed: "Back then, outside Julu City, this seat wanted to hire you as a military advisor, and at that time, this seat had already recognized you as an immortal talent, but unfortunately you finally chose to be my enemy, which is sad and lamentable." Liu Ze, if the Yellow Turban Army had your support, how could it be today's situation? β
Liu Ze shook his head and said: "I have already made it clear that the Tao is not the same, not to mention that I once said that you are just a trickster, and the troubled times began with you, but this stage will not belong to you after all." β
Zhang Jiao suddenly had an epiphany, and said in a lost voice: "Liu Ze, it seems that this seat really looks down on you, yes, the beginning of the troubled times is my hand, and you will eventually be the first person to dominate the world, the sky is dead, but it is not Huang Tian who should stand, the Han family will die, and the one who will replace it must be you Liu Ze undoubtedly!" β
Liu Ze smiled and said nothing, without admitting or denying it. Zhang Jiao stared at him and said, "Who are you sacred?" There should never be a person like you in this world? β
Liu Ze chuckled, he didn't expect Zhang Jiao's eyes to be like a torch, and he could actually guess his true identity, but for a person who was about to die, it no longer meant anything.
"Zhang Jiao, I didn't expect your vision to be really poisonous, I can't hide it, I'm not from this world, I came from two thousand years later, and the purpose of coming here is, of course, to dominate this world."
Zhang Jiao, who was well-versed in Taoism, was not surprised at all, and muttered to himself: "Demon! It's really a demon! The light in his eyes skyrocketed, as if burning with the last bit of essence in his life.
"Liu Ze, if your identity is leaked, I'm afraid this world won't be able to tolerate your existence at all!"
Liu Ze smiled lightly and said, "Leakage? Zhang Jiao, wouldn't you be naΓ―ve to think that you would leave Qingyun Mountain alive? Oh, but even if you live, even if you tell the world, will anyone believe it? β
Zhang Jiao's expression withered, the light in his eyes was lost, his eyes were full of ashes, he sighed long, and said: "To say it or not, in fact, there is no meaning, it's just that, Zhang's head is worth a little money, so I'll give it to you as a paving stone." β
After that, Zhang Jiaohengjian killed himself, and the human head rolled down to Liu Ze's feet.
It's over, the curtain of the Yellow Turban Rebellion has fallen, Liu Ze stands on the top of Qingyun Mountain, watching the wind and clouds in the sky, but his heart is as calm as stopping water.
At this time, there was a noisy voice from the bottom of the mountain, and from a distance, Zhang Fei's loud voice could be heard shouting: "Haha, big brother, you are still alive, great!" β
Liu Ze came back to his senses, glanced at him, and said, "What do you mean to be alive, dare to love you want to curse me to death!" β
Zhang Fei scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "Big brother, you don't know, just now you have made a lot of movement on this mountain, it is a black tornado storm, and it is ten thousand streamers, earth-shattering, we are also in a hurry at the bottom of the mountain, so we ran up to find you." β
Guan Yu also walked closer, and said: "Just now, when we were waiting to break the four elephants, suddenly there was a big change, and the black evil qi actually condensed to the top of the mountain, looking from afar, the storm on the top of the mountain was raging, as if it had the power to destroy the heavens and the earth, if people were in the middle, they had to be torn to pieces, we were worried about the safety of the eldest brother, and we were anxious to go up the mountain to find it, and I couldn't think that the eldest brother was safe and sound, and we were very relieved." β
Liu Ze smiled and said, "Second brother and third brother, don't worry, for my brother to have the Longyuan Sword to protect me, this mere mixed yuan array can't hurt me." β
"Haha-" Zhang Fei laughed strangely, he looked at Zhang Jiao's head that rolled down at Liu Ze's feet, picked it up excitedly, and said, "Isn't this Zhang Jiao's head?" Big brother, you finally slaughtered this guy, good girl, this thing is worth ten thousand households. β
Just as the three brothers were talking, Huangfu Song and others also rushed to the top of the mountain, and seeing that Liu Ze was safe and sound, they all put a hanging heart in their stomachs. Seeing Zhang Jiao's head, everyone was very excited, Zhang Jiao gave the head, this Yellow Turban Rebellion can be regarded as pacified, it has worked hard for nearly two years, experienced all kinds of hardships in the rain of guns and arrows, and finally became famous. When asked about the details, Liu Ze told them one by one, but he didn't say anything about the last conversation between him and Zhang Jiao. When everyone heard this, they all sighed, Liu Ze said it easily, but everyone understood that this was a bloody road that took nine deaths and one life to kill.
Huangfu Songxi said: "Today's full battle for Runde's merit, in order to achieve a complete victory, the head of the owl, today the Shuai camp set up a banquet to celebrate Runde." Everyone responded, like the stars and the moon, and hugged Liu Ze down the mountain.
The next day, Cao Cao led the light cavalry back from Xiaquyang, and at the same time brought back Zhang Bao's head. Cao Cao's battle of Xiaquyang can be said to be smooth, Zhang Bao fled to Xiaquyang when there were only more than 1,000 subordinates left, Cao Cao led thousands of cavalry to come very fast, Zhang Bao just fled to Xiaquyang and did not gain a foothold, was surrounded by Cao Cao's cavalry. Cao Cao, who had an absolute superiority in troops, how could he give Zhang Bao a chance to escape again? After less than half an hour of fighting, more than 1,000 people led by Zhang Bao's cronies and Yellow Turbans were all killed, and no one escaped. Zhang Bao fought to the death, and in the end he was unable to support himself and was dismembered by the officers and soldiers. Originally, Zhang Bao fled to Xiaquyang and wanted to echo Zhang Jiao of Qingyun Mountain, but Zhang Jiao was not dead yet, but Zhang Bao hung up first. Cao Cao took Zhang Bao's head, and quickly returned to the Qingyun Mountain officer and soldier camp to ask for merit.
Zhang Jiao was captured, and now Zhang Bao's head has also been handed over, and the pacification of the Yellow Turban Rebellion is finally completed, and the emperor Song was overjoyed, and Liu Ze and Cao Cao were greatly rewarded, and at the same time immediately drafted a chapter and reported it to the court.
Although there are still small groups of Yellow Turban forces in Jizhou, but Zhang Jiao was destroyed, the other Yellow Turban Army is not to be afraid, Huangfu Song sent several large armies to conquer and suppress, and the small group of Yellow Turbans naturally fled from the wind, and they simply did not have the courage to fight with the officers and soldiers, except for some of them who escaped into the deep mountains and old forests, most of the scattered Yellow Turban soldiers were scattered in a hurry, threw away the weapons in their hands, ripped off the yellow scarves on their heads, and scattered for their lives.
The war in Hebei was calm, but for Huangfu Song, who was also the assassin of Jizhou, it was not yet easy time, and after the chaos, how to restore order in the counties and counties, appease the people, and rectify the rule of officials, there were really a lot of things. For many days in a row, Huangfu Song was so busy that it seemed that cleaning up this mess was no easier than marching and fighting.
Liu Ze has been idle these days, he holds the official position of a cavalry captain, only responsible for marching and fighting, and has nothing to do with him in dealing with local government affairs. Although Cao Cao also served as a military captain, he was much busier than Liu Ze, rectifying military affairs, counting prisoners of war, dealing with baggage, and the affairs of the army were also very complicated. (To be continued......)