Zhang Chong's Taishan Yellow Turban was invaded into Zhangxian on April 27, and in the case of the surrender of the original team of Zhangxian, Zhang Chong left 500 soldiers, led by Li Fu, and stayed in Zhangxian as a way back.

Subsequently, on April 29 and May 10 in the sixth year of Guanghe, Zhang Chong led the Taishan Yellow Turban to break through the two cities of Dongpinglu and Wuyan. In particular, the saltless Taishan army captured hundreds of thousands of stone millet, which immediately relieved the pressure of transfer. After that, the whole army of Taishan was diverted and went straight to Xuchang.

Zhang Chong and his old brothers have been to this place in Xuchang, Zhang Chong still remembers the clansmen of the Zhao family to remember the glory of the family, at that time Zhang Chong did not know much about their Xuchang Zhao family's heels, until he heard Cai Yong say later, he did not know that this family was after Zhao Yan, the Marquis of Xuchang, and his greatest merit was to find an ancient road for Liu Bang who was trapped in the Han Dynasty at that time, and then Han Xin could repair the plank road openly, secretly Chen Cang, and go straight to Guanzhong.

At that time, after Zhang Chong listened to this ancient talk, he paid attention to it, and planned to find an opportunity to get the information about this ancient road from the Zhao clan. Because this road is too important, you must know that in the future, he will enter the Guanzhong, and if he wants to take off, he must also insert two wings, one side is Yizhou, and the other side is Mergezhou. There's nothing to say about entering the state, it's all those ferries, and there aren't so many tricks, but it's fatal to enter Yizhou.

Guanzhong enters Yizhou, the first thing is to enter Hanzhong, and there is a natural danger between Guanzhong and Hanzhong, that is, the Qinling Mountains of 800 miles, which are horizontal from east to west, towering and precipitous. If you want to enter Hanzhong, you must cross the Qinling Mountains, and take the plank road laid by the ancestors.

The road danger in Guanzhong into Hanzhongqi District is almost all mountain trails, and you can't walk the army. And there are only three roads that can march, namely the Bao Slope Road, the Meridian Road, and the Fu Luo Road.

The Baoshui Road connects Baoshui and Xieshui River Valleys, with the southern end in Baocheng and the northern end at the mouth of the Xieshui Valley. This road is also the earliest official road to be built, which was built in Yin Shang and is the closest road in Hanzhong to enter the customs.

Then there is the Meridian Road, which starts from the Meridian Land in the south, runs through the Meridian Valley, and goes directly to the Meridian Pass, which is not far from Chang'an, which can be said to be the closest road to Chang'an. Liu Bang was driven into Hanzhong by Xiang Yu back then, and he took this road.

Finally, there is Fu Luo Road, this road is just between the Bao Slope Road and Fu Luo Road, in short, it neutralizes the advantages of the second road, but the disadvantage is that this road is the most difficult to walk.

But Zhang Chong knew that these roads were almost all on the bright side, and there were defenders everywhere, and if he wanted to pass through these roads under the enemy's guard, there was only one situation, and the whole army would be annihilated. In later generations, Cao Shuang walked the Fu Luo Road in the middle, and then the 100,000 army was almost wiped out by Wang Ping's 30,000 army.

Therefore, you can't just take one road in the pass, that is a dead end, and you must use each other. And Zhang Chong's fight against Xu Chang was to take down the Zhao clansmen, and get the route of Chen Cang's old road from them, so as to add a little preparation for entering Shu in the future.

Of course, after this old road to Chen Cang was discovered, it was naturally no longer hidden, but the Zhao family was proud of this way, and there must be some detailed information of their own, which Zhang Chong wanted.

And Zhang Chong took the big *** road north to Suchang, and Hebei Taiping Road sent Zhang Jiao's latest military report. Since Zhang Chong gave up going north and Zhang Jiao's regimental camp, the letter sent by Zhang Jiao has become more and more euphemistic, Zhang Chong knows that Zhang Jiao is already afraid of him, but what can this be? At least now everyone is still fighting Hanting together, and they are alive. ….

Zhang Jiao's letter told the situation from April to May, although Zhang Jiao said in the letter that Hebei was no longer in trouble, only Yecheng had not been left, but Zhang Chong immediately knew that Zhang Jiao was indeed under the city of Ye.

It is no wonder that the county of Wei County is not an ordinary city, it has been the famous capital of Dayi since the Spring and Autumn Period.

First of all, this place is the key point of the north, and it is located on the traffic artery in the east of Taihang. North through Handan can reach Jicheng; Go south to Liyang, you can cross the big river and tend to the east of Henan; West through the mouth of the mouth through Taihang and into the state; Traveling east to Cangtingjin to cross the big river can enter Yanzhou, and then turn green, which can be described as a hub in the north.

In addition, the terrain around Yecheng is flat, the roads extend in all directions, and there are water transportation through Zhangshui and Huanzhushui to connect with Baigou and the Yellow River. In a word: the pawn of this county can deter the people of Jizhou. Raise the army to the east, Qingzhou can be determined. Returning to the north of the army, Youzhou is not afraid. Leading the army to the west, and the state was shaken, and it was a first-class treasure land.

Therefore, Zhang Jiao also has plans to use this place as a foundation. But it's such a good place, and the defense is also tight. The west side of this place

For the majestic Taihang, guarding the mouth of the mouth can block the eastern land. On the southeast side is the Yellow River moat, and there are ferries such as Liyang, Baima, and Cangting as precautions. Then his north and south are Zhang, Huan, and Fushui flowing through, which can play a role in hindering the enemy's march.

And Zhang Jiao was blocked north of Yecheng and could not advance an inch. Although Zhang Jiao said in the letter that he had broken the periphery of Yecheng, it was time to go. But Zhang Chong understood that there was not much time left for Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Chong left a message to Zhang Jiao before, asking him to pay attention to the Youzhou Raid coming down from the north. This time, Zhang Jiao didn't say anything about Youzhou in his letter, and I don't know if he cares.

Zhang Jiao once again mentioned in the letter that Zhang Chong was going north to camp with him, and Zhang Jiao meant that now since Zhang Chong's Taishan army was going to Dongjun, it could converge with the Taiping Road of Dongjun to cross north from Cangtingdu and attack Yecheng with him.

Zhang Chong took the letter and was noncommittal, no matter what Zhang Jiao was, he still walked according to the original plan.

Previously, after he broke the three places of Zhangxian, Dongpinglu, and Wuyan, his strength swelled again. Among them, Zhang County has to be Gao Ya, Wu Zi, Zhao Shu, and Li Zou, all of whom have bravery, and Zhang Chong selected four people to join the collision team. When they arrived in Dongping Lu, Taiping Daoists Xie Hui and Wu Rong led a thousand people from Dongping Lu Yellow Turbans to defect. Zhang Chong simplified his elite and brave 300, and made up another 200 prisoners of Dongpingguo into a part, called "Pinglu Battalion", with Xie Hui as the main and Wu Rong as the deputy, and the rest into the old camp.

And when the salt-free was laid, the local Taiping Dao led Zhao Liang and Zhu Ying to the Taiping Dao with 2,000 people, and Zhang Chong joined the army, and Zhang Chong still organized 400 of his Jingyong into a salt-free battalion.

In this way, Zhang Chong's development snowballed all the way, that is, he continued to select, and now there are 7,000 victorious soldiers and 8,000 old battalions, not counting the 1,002 captured soldiers in the previous battle in Zhangxian County. In this way, this team of 16,000 people consumed 600 stone of food every day, but fortunately the savings along the way were sufficient, otherwise they would have to clean up the place like a thief.

This is only the military aspect, breaking the three cities, Zhang Chong's greater gain is to seize the treasury of the king of Dongping over the years, only this wave, Zhang Chong's Taishan army's holy treasury savings doubled. In addition, there are also talented people who defect, and there are no big talents who defect, but there are also a few literati who are not aspiring. ….

One is called Chen Li, is a student of Hongdu Gate School, working calligraphy, but his family background is not good, he can't be an official, he can only go back to his hometown to write for a living, and then Taishan Yellow Turban entered the city, and he came directly to defect. There is also a person named Jiang Sheng who also came to defect, this person is actually the person who helped the Langya thief when the Taishan army attacked the Langya thief a few years ago, and somehow turned into a saltless one. There are also some of Xu Yan's friends and former officials, who joined the Taishan Army under Xu Yan's instigation.

The huge gains along the way once again strengthened Zhang Chong's strategy of independent development south of the Yellow River, so Zhang Jiao's request to go north to the regimental camp, Zhang Chong could only politely refuse.

However, Zhang Jiao came to the letter, and Zhang Chong naturally had to reply to him, in addition to reminding Zhang Jiao to pay attention to the land to the north again, Zhang Chong also asked the confessor to bring Zhang Jiao a seal of the king of Dongping, as for how Zhang Jiao understood this move, this was not under Zhang Chong's control.

On 15 May, the day when Zhang Chong led his army to besiege Xuchang, a group of scouts carried letters from the north, making the war even more confusing.

This time it was not Zhang Jiao who wrote the letter, but Zhang Chong's teacher, Zhang Liang.

In the letter, Hebei Taiping Dao had just experienced a setback, and the reason for this was that the Youzhou Raiders raided the Taiping Dao camp north of Zhangshui.

From mid-April to May 3, the three Zhang Jiao brothers combined their troops to besiege Yecheng, an important town in Hebei. The 100,000 Hebei Taiping Army and the Wei County Taishou Zhang Ze fought fiercely in Zhangshui, and the main ones were the three military posts north of Zhangshui.

These three military posts are built in order to prevent the Qiang people from rushing down from the Taihang Mountain, although small but strong, the Taiping Road is not very good at attacking the city, a continuous fight for ten days, only to break two.

Not only that, this Wei County Taishou Zhang Ze is also a powerful person, known as Zhang Crouching. This gentleman is a native of Nanzheng, Hanzhong, who previously served as Ke Ke Tai Punctuality, defeated Nanban, and shocked Nanzhong. Even because of this person, these Nanban rebels have to go to other counties to rebel. Almost all of his later resumes were related to the war. He was a captain of Huqiang, Fufeng Taishou, Guiyang Taishou, before the Bajun barbarians rebelled, and he was returned to Hanzhong Pingba Barbarian by Ren Longji. Come at last

This Wei County did too much.

Therefore, in front of Zhang Ze, the crouching tiger of the Han family, the three brothers of the Zhang family were bleeding from their heads. This one has two elite soldiers in his hand, one is the Nanzhong soldier, and the other is the Qiang soldier, both of whom are good at fighting. Several times out of the city through the Taiping Road camp wall, like entering no man's land.

Taiping Dao could not defeat the stronghold of the Han Court on the north bank of Zhangshui, and it was mostly related to the repeated attacks and harassment of these Southern Barbarian elites. However, after Zhang Jiao went out to personally boost the morale of the whole army, the army attacked the stronghold on the north bank, and even dispatched the Yellow Turban wrestlers under his tent, and finally swept away the Han soldiers north of Zhangshui in a battle.

Even if Zhang Ze, the Taishou of Wei County, was good at fighting, he finally retreated into Ye County under the superior forces of Hebei Taiping Road and continued to defend it.

Subsequently, on May 6, the Taiping Dao Jizhou Army dispatched the Black Mountain Division, the Huanglong Division, Zuo Xiao, Guo Daxian, and four 10,000 troops to cross Zhangshui south and besiege Ye County, while Zhang Jiao held a nine-section scepter to stop north of Zhangshui and coordinate the siege.

On the next five days, Taiping Dao attacked in turns, and later sent Yu Shigen, Qingniujiao, Zhang Baiqi, Liu Shi, and Zuo Zhangzhang eight or five troops, totaling 10,000 people, to merge with the previous army to attack Yecheng. It seems that Zhang Chong's reply and the Dongping Wang Yin sent to Zhang Jiao put a lot of pressure, and now he is fighting to attack the city.

Although this trick has large casualties, it does work, the outer city of Ye County has been broken, and Zhang is too protective to lead the county soldiers to retreat to the inner city, and it is only a matter of time before Ye County falls.

But at this time, a southbound Youzhou raider raided the camp of Zhang Jiao on the north bank of Zhangshui, and this group of people obviously came to behead, but fortunately, Zhang Jiao was cautious and arranged the yellow turban wrestlers under the tent in the big tent. In the end, the 200 Youzhou raiders who raided were all killed, but Zhang Jiao was also shot with an arrow. Now there is no account, only Zhang Liang is allowed to serve in his account.

Zhang Chong looked at Xu Chang in front of him, but he didn't expect that Zhang Jiao was injured, although the master didn't say how serious the injury was, but at least it couldn't be a director. Could it be that Zhang Jiao suffered such a big injury in history? If not, then wouldn't his efforts make Taiping Dao more difficult?

What Zhang Chong didn't know was that at this moment, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, who had passed through Wuyue for more than a few months, had already taken 40,000 Han court elites to Yingchuan.

A catastrophe of the Taiping Road is no longer inevitable.

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