On May 20, the sixth year of Guanghe, Jizhou, Ye County, Wei County, north of Zhangshui.

It was the peak of summer grass, but the flowers fell and people died. At this moment, Zhangshui has become a sad place for everyone in Taiping Road, Hebei.

The Zhangshui in the north of Ye County is very clear, because when the Zhangshui in the Shangdang area of the Taihang Mountains flows from west to east, the areas that flow through are mostly the limestone and quartzite areas of the Taihang Mountains, and the sediment in this area is less, and the Zhangshui is clearer, so some people call this Zhangshui Qingzhangshui.

But now the clear water in the northern section of Ye County is full of blood, and countless Taiping Taoists are numbly salvaging the bodies of their colleagues, and no one wants to recall the blood of the past few days.

These days, Taiping Dao has shed blood under this Yecheng, but nothing has been found, and today, the gold-whitewashed, supreme sacred Chinese army tent in the heavens and the earth finally came to the military report:

"The whole army gave up the siege and returned to Handan."

It's finally going to be withdrawn, this is the most daring Yellow Turban wrestler in Taiping Dao can't help but sigh.

This Yecheng built on the high ground of the Zhanghe River in the north, seven miles from east to west, five miles from north to south, and the city wall is made of rammed earth. From April to mid-May, thousands of corpses had been left under the city.

But just when they were already standing on the walls of Yecheng, fate played a joke on them again. A group of cavalry heading south suddenly attacked the Chinese army's big tent, and the anxious Chinese army actually asked the troops to come back to help.

In this way, the Taiping Daoists who had already attacked the city were driven off the city wall, and they were never able to stand on the city wall of Ye County again. Some of them retreated northward, while others died on the way to the Zhangshui River.

There are police in the Chinese army, and the nine Yellow Turban troops who originally crossed the river naturally want to return to the army for rescue. However, because Zhang Jiao did not designate anyone as the commander of the former enemy, when crossing the river, all the troops looked north and no one stopped the Han soldiers on the south bank.

Zhang Ze, the Taishou of Wei County, who has been fighting and eating and living in the city these days, keenly grasped the chaotic fighter plane of crossing the Taiping Road, and this time he personally led the two Yi soldiers under his command out of the city and directly attacked the nine Taiping Dao that were crossing the river.

In the end, a fiasco in Taiping Road occurred in Zhangshui, where nine soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and Zhangshui was also cut off. But fortunately, the leaders of the various departments were successfully withdrawn.

In the days that followed, there was no further battle between the two sides. Taiping Dao was gloomy, but Zhang of Wei County was accumulating strength and waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

Indeed, the leading Youzhou Raiders are coming, are the reinforcements still far away?

Han Bing could think that Taiping Dao was not stupid, so he naturally expected this, and on this day, in the big tent of the Chinese army decorated with gold leaf, Qu Shuai of all parties was discussing this matter with General Sanwei:

"The sentinel from the north has come to report that Xiang Xu of Zhao Guoxiang in the north has gone south from Xiangguo, and it seems that he is going back to Handan."

It was Bai Que who said this, and his person was in charge of the Quartet Sentinel of Taiping Dao.

As soon as he heard that it was Xiang Xu, all the generals in the big tent laughed, and one of the strong men with strong hair was the first to laugh:

"Just Xiang Xu, this straw bag, and still have the courage to go south, it's really going to die of laughter. This stupid old man is a useless maniac, and he was ashamed to say anything before, as long as people read the "Book of Filial Piety" on the north bank of the river, they can read us to death. And then what? Our soldiers are coming to Handan, and this straw bag is going directly to Xiangguo. What is there to fear from such a stupid old man?" ….

This long-haired and tall man is called Zuo Zhangba, and he uses a good hand. What Zuo Zhangba said was directly the voice of the generals, so they applauded.

One of them coaxed, and even said:

"Reading the "Book of Filial Piety" and thinking of us to death, I see that those wealthy families are unkind to their fathers and sons, and they are also unfilial when it comes to unfilial piety. If that's the case, this Xiang Xu will also help us a lot, so that we won't have to cut it one by one when the time comes."

It's no wonder that these yellow scarves will look down on Xiang Life, and their people are indeed absurd. Learn "Lao Tzu", wear a silk hair, and wear a cloak and a hairbeat. But he also called himself Confucius, and named his disciples "Yan Yuan", "Zigong", "Ji Lu", and "Ran You". Later, when the county saw that he had a different behavior, he raised his filial piety, but this person should not be. It wasn't until the end that the state was specially summoned to enter the country, earned a good reputation, and was directly sent to Zhao State as the minister of state.

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Dao is a step to the sky, and he is a county magistrate with filial piety, but he only refused a few calls, and he became the prime minister of 2,000 stones in one step.

But it was only after he arrived in Zhao that he let the world know the nature of his straw bag. He was not bad at the pomp and majesty of the 2,000 stones, but he ignored it when he was asked to fulfill the responsibility of the 2,000 stone herdsmen. The agency had grown artemisia grass, and he had never opened a single paperwork. After that, he only did one thing when he arrived, that is, he was ashamed, and letting people read the "Book of Filial Piety" in the north to read the death thief is just one of them.

The white sparrow waited for the generals to finish laughing before they began to say the rest of the words. He is a person with a heart, and he knows that the religion has been miserable recently, so he deliberately brought out Xiang Xu, a fun person, to the generals to be active. But then, what the white sparrow said was not so optimistic:

"It is precisely because Xiang Xu is a straw bale, so when he dares to go south to brush our beards, it can be seen that the Youzhou soldiers in the north have already gone south. Later, our sentry did find a large amount of horse dung in the south and area of the giant deer, a small number of which was the size of four thousand horsemen."

Bai Que's words made the atmosphere of the Chinese army's big tent freeze at once, especially some of the sect members who relied on Youzhou, such as Zhongshan Kingdom, Hejian Kingdom, and Bohai Kingdom, directly frowned.

Among them, they or their relatives and friends have more or less gone to the northern Xinjiang to practice more, and they have an intuitive understanding of the strength of the Youzhou Raids of the Han Court, they have no illusions at all, you know, this is four thousand Raids, once they charge, it will be overwhelming.

Bai Que guessed the situation of the big tent after saying this military report. But he has more to say:

"There is also a giant deer, and a new Taishou named Guo Dian has arrived. After the original Taishou was beheaded by us, the Han court sent this person to Julu, and now the northernmost part of the county is near Xiaquyang, and the intention is unknown."

At this time, Zhang Bao, who was sitting on the right side of Zhang Jiao, spoke:

"Can you find out the background of this Guo Dian?"

Bai Que shook his head, and only said that this person was a Si Li, and he didn't know anything about the rest, but he himself added:

"Now the giant deer is all over our Taiping Road, and its people dare to come to the giant deer alone, which shows that they are bold and cannot be underestimated."

Zhang Bao read Guo Dian's name again, and then asked Bai Que to continue.

The white finch nodded, and then said a big news:

"The Yellow Turban colleagues in Hanoi desperately sent news that Lu Zhi had arrived at the south bank of Huanshui with the main force of the Han Tribunal." ….

This news is really a bit shocking, you must know that it is not much miles away from Yecheng. The journey of his army is only three or five days.

Whether to fight or go, at this time, all the generals looked at the horns of the head. At this moment, Zhang Jiao's complexion was ruddy, and it was obvious that the damage of the previous arrow was not as heavy as he imagined.

Zhang Jiao said:

"Yecheng can't be beaten now. We are now going to retreat to Julu, hold on there, and when the veterans of the Han army are tired, we will go out of the city again and destroy the enemy in one fell swoop. In a while, General Digong will preside over the retreat, and today we will retreat to Handan and defeat Xiang Xubu first."

What Zhang Jiao said, that is, it was a slogan that the generals chanted the slogan of Huang Tian's victory, and they went down to prepare.

Looking at the backs of the generals, Zhang Jiao said with a mysterious look in his eyes:

"Your apprentice still doesn't want to go north?"

Zhang Liang, who was sitting on Zhang Jiao's left hand side, naturally knew that his brother was talking to him, and he also knew that the apprentice he was talking about was Zhang Chong.

So Zhang Liang sighed and shook his head.

Zhang Jiao didn't say anything, and the big tent fell silent.

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At this time, Zhang Chong was also in trouble, he knew that there would definitely be a series of troubles in the Yellow Turban Army Battalion in Hedong County, but he still underestimated the short-sightedness and xenophobia of the Yellow Turban Army in East County.

On May 18, Dian Wei broke through Dong'e County, and now it is 20 days, and the Taishan army is still staying in Dong'e without west. The reason is that it is inconsistent with the opinions of Dongjun Taiping Road on the next march.

Bu Ji from Dongjun rushed to Dong'a yesterday to discuss with Zhang Chong. Bu Ji meant that he was going to cross the Yellow River north with his subordinates and camp with Zhang Jiao. And Zhang Chong repeatedly persuaded him to go north now, so he completely gave up his fellow paths on the south bank of the Yellow River

If the Taiping Dao from all over Yanzhou cannot be gathered together as soon as possible, it will inevitably be broken by the Han Ting in the future. Therefore, Zhang Chong still insisted on leading his troops to the west to attack and break through the Ao Cang of the Han Court. The main force of the Han soldiers going north relied on this Ao Cang to supply the army with food, as long as Ao Cang was defeated, the Han soldiers had no food and would inevitably lose. This is Wei Wei to save Zhao.

Yesterday, Bu Ji had already been persuaded by Zhang Chong, so today Zhang Chong was already preparing to go west to Puyang. There is a road of 300 miles from Puyang here, and the army will have to walk for ten days. Fortunately, this is the Heji Plain, the road is smooth, and the march is not hard.

The reason why Zhang Chong wants to fight Puyang next is not only because this is the county of Dongjun, but also because of the situation here, Zhang Chong wants to occupy it as the rear.

Puyang, the ruins of the ancient Zhuan, also known as the Emperor Hill, later defended the capital, and Qilu competed here. At the end of Qin, Xiang Yu choked Zhang Han. Later, Lu Bu also fought with Cao Cao on this basis. Why did all these forces have to take this place first?

Just because Puyang is located between the big river and Pushui, it is the west gate of the Heji Plain and the east gate of Chenliu. Moreover, there is an important ferry port here, Puyang Ferry, which can directly cross the big river.

At that time, Zhang Chong occupied this place, and once the Taiping Road in the north could not hold on, he could immediately speed north from this ferry. Therefore, Puyang, Zhang Chong must fight, and even he has decided to start fighting Haoqiang in this vicinity, and he wants to use this as a base to gain a firm foothold.

But just when Zhang Chong was in order to do everything and was about to invite Dongjun Taiping Road to go west together, Bu Ji changed his mind again, he neither mentioned going north this time, nor was he willing to go west with Zhang Chong, only saying that the Taiping people in this province were all from Dongjun, and their homeland was difficult to leave, and they were unwilling to go west.

When Zhang Chong heard it, he knew that it was a pretext.

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