Chapter 240: Xinzheng
The new Zhonglang will Zhang Wen set out from Kyoto on August 15 and arrived in Yangzhai on the 20th. There was also a 2,000-strong festival army accompanying him, which was much stronger than Yanzhou Mu Huang Wan when he took office.
Zhang Wen is a minister who is relatively close to the eunuch party in the court. This time, Zhang Rang and others could no longer bear the fact that the military power was all in the hands of the party members or upright people, so they recommended Zhang Wen to Liu Hong despite public opinion.
Zhang Wen was from the Zhang family, a wealthy family in Nanyang, and he was the son of Cao Cao's grandfather Cao Teng, and the relationship between the two families was irreversible. Therefore, as soon as Zhang Wen was stationed in Jieyang Zhai, he called Cao Cao to his shogunate and asked him about the reality of his army.
Cao Cao would have no soldiers in his hands, if he hadn't known that Shibo Zhang Wen had become the new commander, he would have returned to Peiguo's hometown to recruit troops. These days, he has seen that if there are no soldiers in this hand, everything he says is false.
But now as soon as Zhang Wen came, he asked him about his countermeasures, which made Cao Cao rekindle his confidence, and he said to Zhang Wen:
"Shibo, the situation that can be seen now is that the yellow scarves in Yuzhou have been divided into two groups, one goes south, and the other goes north with the Taishan thieves. This thief who went south is not to be worried, and he will be leveled by his own right middle man. But this northward movement is dangerous, because most of their targets in the north are Aocang. 「
"Okura?"
"Yes, Ao Cang serves as a transit warehouse for storing grain, and the corn stored in it is incalculable. Once it is taken over by thieves, the whole world will be repeated."
Cao Cao's seriousness, Zhang Wen thought about it for a while, and really had to guard against it, so he asked:
"Then I don't know if the virtuous nephew has a plan?"
Who knew that Cao Cao, who had just spoken loudly, shook his head when he heard this. He told Zhang Wen that there was no way:
"Since the battle of Yingyang, at least in Yuzhou, the Han army and the Yellow Turban Moth thieves have changed their offensive and defensive positions. The Han army that is now staying in Yangzhai is about 10,000 people, but the morale of the general military officers is low, and it is difficult to use such soldiers to be the soldiers of a hundred battles on the opposite side."
Zhang Wen has always known that this Cao Cao is a bit resourceful, and knows that when he says this, he is not saying that there is no way, but that he has a way, but this method is not easy to say.
He didn't go around the bend with Cao Cao, and directly ordered:
"Virtuous nephew, you don't have to go around. Let's just say it, what to do."
Cao Cao didn't pretend, and said frankly:
"We can mobilize Yuzhou Haoqiang to train in a group, just like Wang Tingshi did in Runan."
In this way, in Cao Cao's suggestion, in order to make up for the lack of strength of the Han army, Zhang Wen finally delegated military power, so that the heroes from all over Yuzhou could train Ding Yong and start group training.
With Cao Cao's knowledge, he naturally knew that this trick was to quench his thirst, but for what purpose did he offer this strategy?
But for whatever purpose, the world is going to be in chaos.
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After obtaining supplies from Changshe, the problem of millet grain and military resources for the Taiyu Yellow Turban was temporarily solved. After leaving more than 20,000 old battalions, the three armies had a total of 20,000 soldiers and 10,000 old battalions, all the way to Xinzheng, the captain of Sili.
There is a ranger named Zhou Gui in Xinzheng, who used to receive great favors from the local Taiping Road, but when the Taiping Road incident occurred in April, he was taking a group of *** to help people collect debts, and when he came back, he knew that his benefactor family had been slaughtered by Liu Heng in Xinzheng.
Zhou Gui wanted to take revenge, but he knew that he was weak, so he could only endure and lurk. ….
On this day, he learned that the cupola general of Taishan had captured Changshe and was about to lead his troops north to Xinzheng, and Zhou Gui knew that his chance for revenge had come.
He gathered 200 people at the dock wall, and then privately contacted Zheng Xiang, a bandit from Shanliao in Shanshan, and wanted to invite him to attack Xinzheng together, echoing the Taishan army in the north.
Although Zheng Xiang is a mountain bandit, he is quite ambitious. With an identity like him, he has no special circumstances, and has been a bandit all his life. So when Zhou Gui contacted him, he agreed without much thought.
So the two of them worshiped at the Zichan Temple on the mountain and held great things together.
Xinzheng used to be the capital of Zheng in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Korea was also here during the Warring States Period, so it has always been a gathering of humanities, that is, Zheng Xiang and Zhou Gui also admired the stories of their predecessors, and swore in front of the mausoleum of the child to advance and retreat together.
After the two joined forces
, the number of which is four hundred.
On the one hand, Zhou Gui was looking for someone to go south to contact the Taishan army in the north, and on the other hand, he used his connections in the city to constantly send his troops into Xinzheng City.
Originally, Zhou Gui wanted to write a letter to Zhang Chong, the general of the cupola, but he was illiterate, and he was even more worried about finding a scholar to bring a pen to such an important matter. In his simple cognition, this generation is not credible. So he had to find a henchman with a sharp tongue and go south.
Zhou Gui's luck was there, not long after his henchmen went south, he was captured by the sentinel of the Taishan Army's striker.
When he learned that there was a group of people in Xinzheng City who wanted to do it anyway, Zhang Dadian, the general of the Ban Busy Order, selected thousands of soldiers in the army, and quickly went north with this person to get in touch with the righteous army in the city anyway.
As for whether this group of people is pretending to be a Han army? Of course it is possible, but Yu Ban believes that with Zhang Da's ability, he can judge.
When Zhang Da took a thousand people to the north, he joined Zhou Gui and Zheng Xiang, who were still outside the city, in Shanshan. Zhang Da understood the reason for the incident between the two and felt that the two were still credible.
So, on August 20, the Taishan Army Zhang Dabu commander 1,000 people directly launched an attack on Xinzheng City. Xinzheng, as the capital of the two dynasties, was much stronger than the average county seat. Moreover, there is Weishui as a city river, and there is generally no army of 10,000, so it is impossible to defeat Xinzheng.
But with the help of Zhou Gui and Zheng Xiang in the city, Zhang Da only commanded a thousand people and entered the new Zhengcheng City. There were less than 500 county guards in the city, how could they stand the slaughter of Zhang Da's thousands of people, and when they saw that the city could not be defended, they immediately scattered and fled.
At that time, when the city was broken, Liu Heng, the new Zheng Ling, was sitting in the hall to listen to the county officials talk about the situation of this year's autumn harvest. Suddenly, he saw the ranger Zhou Gui in the city covered in blood and entered the county office, and he was shocked and hurriedly scolded:
"What a big dog, dare to rush into the county office. Come ......."
Not much later, Zhou Gui had already cut down the county officials present, rushed to the front of the hall, and stabbed Xinzheng Ling Liu Heng to death, not only that, but the murderous Zhou Gui also entered the back corridor and killed Liu Heng's wives and concubines.
After Zhang Da entered the city, he attacked the treasury and arsenal, so he was one step slower than Zhou Gui, and at this time, when he saw that Zhou Gui killed Xin Zheng Ling, he also killed his entire family, so he wanted to reprimand.
But Zhou Gui suddenly said:
"If you don't take his family's life, wouldn't the Taiping Daoists who died at his hands die in vain?"
Zhang Da choked and couldn't say the next words. ….
In the end, he only told Zhou Gui:
"You haven't joined the Taishan Army yet, and you don't know the law in the army, so it's okay. But if you still want to join the Taishan Army in the future, you must know the difference between private vendetta and public trial. It's revenge, if you kill yourself, you'll have to get into it in the end."
[Stable operation for many years, comparable to the old version of the book-chasing artifact, old bookworms are using.]
"Back to the general, the crowd is excited only because the general is perverse, Xinzheng is the ancient capital of Zheng and Han, and the people have been kind since ancient times. The leaders of Qianqian are at peace with each other, and they perform their duties. And now, the general broke the city, did not ask about the people's diseases, and broke their homes first. Regardless of the likes and dislikes of the four people, kill their leaders first. We haven't been able to see its wisdom, and we don't know how this Xinzheng is safe?"
Zhang Da's face darkened, and he asked hard:
"Oh, what do you say you should do?"
The old official lowered his head to persuade, so he didn't see Zhang Da's face, but the colleagues behind him couldn't help but tremble when they saw that the thief's face was simply covered with dark clouds.
The old man continued to pray:
"The big surname is An, and the small people are safe......
The old official couldn't say the following words anymore, it turned out that Zhang Da directly pulled out a knife and slammed it into his chest. Blood stained the old official's clothes, he looked at Zhang Da in disbelief, tilted his head, and smashed to the ground.
The blood pooled into a pool of blood, and it was about to be stained with the boots of the county officials behind, but they didn't dare to move, because the thief in front of them was looking at them with fierce eyes.
I saw Zhang Da wiping the ring knife with a sweat towel while scolding:
"An old thing, with so much nonsense, is it stupid to fight to be a fool? Will you deceive me with words? In this world, it is never a death without treating a good surname. It's just too good for you guys.
How bitter are those poor? All good women in the countryside are taken away by you, making the countryside yin and yang discordant. And the world pays more taxes, there are many subjects, and they increase every year, but which one falls on the heads of you heroes? That's it, but the other generation is insatiable, and they are in collusion with you greedy officials, and they will have to pay three points for every penny. How greedy and loving you are for money. ….
And so it is with your court. Every time we urge forced labor, we don't ask the agricultural time, which noble family wants to build a garden, and they urge us to practice, don't you know that everyone wants to eat? Don't you know that millet is grown from the ground with sweat? You people, even if you have been out of the field for too long, have forgotten that if you don't eat, you will really die. Not only for our lives, but also for yours."
This is not over, Zhang Da is still continuing to say, what he listened to in the military academy and what he saw in the battle will be said today, he not only wants to punish these people, but also their hearts:
"I followed the general to the heavens and went to war. I saw how the poor died. Come, I'll tell you. If you don't beat you cool officials to death, then you will be arrested and sent to the prison temple to atone for some people's crimes. Either they were killed by thieves, or they were scourged to death because they could not pay their taxes. Either they died of starvation because of lack of food, or they were killed by the plague. Tell me that there is still a way for the poor to live in this world?"
Zhang Da kept talking about death, and it was murderous, and these county officials shook into chaff, for fear that Zhang Da would kill them with a knife.
But just when everyone was frightened, a young official in the outermost circle, lined up with all his colleagues, stood up, he bowed to Zhang Da, and then said loudly:
"The general temporarily suppressed the anger of the thunder, the old official just now was already easy to talk about, and he felt that he was going to play with the general if he had a bit of eloquence, and it was not a pity to die?"
Zhang Da also looked at this person and sneered:
"Aren't you also playing with your tongue? What are you doing now? Don't give me back yet."
Who knew that after this person was angrily reprimanded by Zhang Da, he did not panic, but said loudly:
"General, the most important thing now is to solve the problem of public anger outside. And I can help the general."
Zhang Da narrowed his eyes, lowered his head knife, and said coldly:
"Oh, then you come out and tell me."
Obviously, if this person is like the same person just now, and says some demagogic nonsense, then this knife will come again.
And of course this man also knew, but he still said unhurriedly:
"General, the people's anger is not because Lu Min is angry with the general, but because they are unfair to Xin Zheng Ling."
"Oh, what to say."
"General Hui, although the new Zheng Ling Liu Gong was ruthless in government, especially when he pacified the Yellow Turban Rebellion in this county in April, he killed 400 people, but his love for the people is also true. Speaking of one thing alone, in April last year, there was a severe drought in Xinzheng, and Liu released grain in the warehouse, but who knew that the millet in the warehouse had already been released
The barnmen colluded with the big families in the city to steal and sell. At that time, Liu Gong personally led people to each family to ask for grain, not only beheaded those involved, but also recovered 200,000 stone of grain for disaster relief. So, in other words, Liu Gong has the grace of life for the people of the city. And now the general not only killed Liu Gong, but also hanged Liu Gong's body, which is the reason for the people's anger."
Suddenly, the young magistrate was stunned, and saw that the thief was about to be put on his neck, and then he heard the other side ask:
"Really?"
"It's true."
"Then this Liu Gong has been greedy for ink from it."
"I don't know, but I don't think so."
"Then this Liu Gong has done such a big thing, can he still sit in this position until now?"
"Liu Gong is a descendant of the King of Hejian, and there are people on it."
"Hmph."
Then Zhang Da took down the ring head knife, and then ordered the soldiers around him:
"Go and put down the body of Xin Zheng Ling, and then find a good coffin to collect."
The man was obviously a brainer, and he hesitated for a moment, and asked:
"General, what if Xin Zheng Ling is a good official again, only he killed 400 of our fellow Daoists, and he was already cheap to hang the corpses for public display. Moreover, if we do this now, the newly attached Zhou Gui will definitely be dissatisfied. Why upset both sides about this?"
Zhang Da glared and scolded:
"Then you say, Lu people outside, what do you say?"
Hu Bing shook his head, not knowing what to do.
"That's fine, just let you do it. Our Taishan army has clear grievances. This new Zheng Ling killed my fellow Daoists, and it was naturally inevitable to die. But his act of saving the people is also a fact, so naturally he cannot abuse his corpse. As for what you said about Zhou Gui, I will explain. Moreover, if we can put it in it, we can still hang it, and if it doesn't work for a while, we can hang this person together."
As he spoke, Zhang Daji pointed to the young county official.
Please call me Mr. Chen