As the Taishan army crossed the river in the north, the Han army regained Henan, and the post road to and from Kyoto was frequently reported for a time. But whether it is the general He Jin or many handsome generals of the Han army in Henan, they all understand in their hearts what is going on, the so-called victory of the Han army is just picking up money boxes behind people, and they have not contributed at all.

But it's a pity that everyone knows that Liu Hong was kept in the dark. After receiving these good news, he knew that after the Taishan bandits were defeated, they had fled north to join the Taiping army in Hebei. As a result, Liu Hong, who was ambitious again, made a temple calculation, and let the Henan Han army follow closely behind, and he had to annihilate the Yellow Turban in Hebei and really complete his work in one battle.

However, there is one thing to say, although the Han army selectively reported the results of the battle, it did not slack off in the war.

In fact, Zhang Wen has already taken countermeasures. He knew Liu Hong's great achievements, and Zhang Wen knew that if the kind of good news was sent to the past, Liu Hong would definitely let the Han army make persistent efforts.

Because the Han family really can't drag it out. The ministers and bigwigs in the court who had participated in presiding over the Pingqiang War exclaimed that the civil war was more expensive than the foreign war. The scope of the battle with the Qiang people is roughly in Liang, Yong, and other places, which are not the focus of money and food, so the cost is not large. The main battlefields of the Ping Yellow Turban are in Qinghai, Hebei, Henan, and Jing, which are the richest places in the whole world.

Half a year after the Han army put down the rebellion, these places were destroyed, and the Han family, which could not collect money and food, was facing unimaginable collapse.

It was with this realization that Zhang Wen took decisive action after recovering Xingyang. Because the Taishan army had requisitioned the trough boats on both sides of Bianshui and Jishui, the Han army lacked enough boats to block and chase on the water, so Zhang Wen, in the name of the shogunate of the general Zhendong, asked Li Mintong, the Taishou of Hanoi in the north, to lead the Hanoi Dahe boat division to block the Taishan army into the waterway of the river in Huai County.

Huai County is the county of Hanoi, and it is also the mouth of the waterway where the big river separates from the Bianshui, so Zhang Wen's meaning is to let the Hanoi Navy Division block the Taishan army and prevent it from going down the river with the help of the big river waterway.

This side moved to Hanoi Taishou, and over there Zhang Wen passed it to Lu Zhi, the Beizhong Langjun of Hebei in the north. Although Zhang Wen's rank is higher than Lu Zhi's now, his Zhendong general's scope does not govern the war in Hebei, so Zhang Wen still has the right wording in the book.

He roughly said in the book that the Taishan thieves escaped by luck and went north to the river, and he hoped that the Hebei Han soldiers could draw elites and retreat to Hanoi to intercept the Taishan army with Li Min, the Taishou of Hanoi. At the same time, let the Liyang soldiers of Liyangjin downstream make pontoon bridges and iron cables in the big river to block the possible southward movement of the Taishan army.

This is Zhang Wen's plan. With Hebei and Hanoi boat divisions to fortify and intercept the key points of the waterway, he commanded the Henan Han soldiers to chase northward, striving to annihilate the Taishan army on the narrow waterway of Bianshui.

Isn't your Taishan army powerful in the field? Isn't it a hundred battles won? But now that you're on the boat, I see how good you are? When the time comes, I will come down on both sides of the raft and give you a fire to burn for several miles, and see if you die.

This trick is really ruthless. The Taishan army's water combat capability is almost none, if it is really blocked by the Han army at the mouth of the big river, and then attacked by fire on both sides, it may really be folded here. The risks in this are indeed there, does Zhang Chong know? I know, but Zhang Chong repeatedly considered the pros and cons, and still chose to take the waterway, why?

What is the most difficult thing about retreating and turning to war? It is the non-combatants and baggage of the army. This time, because the Taishan Army was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the eastern part of Henan, it absorbed at least tens of thousands of Qianshou people who were devoted to the Taishan Army. Then Xingyang Dongchengcang and Aocang piled up the heavy mountains, in addition to the poverty up and down the scattered rivers, the rest, the Taishan army also raised a batch, used to give Hebei Yellow Turban assistance.

If you go north by land, the above situation is more serious, not to mention the time and effort, and you may also be harassed by local clans along the way. And now by water, it will be solved, and in only two days, nearly 80,000 people of Taishan's soldiers, family members, and accompanying troops will be safely evacuated. That's the advantage of waterways.

And Zhang Chong didn't gamble at will? He would never risk himself and tens of thousands of lives. Even if he chose the waterway, Zhang Chong did not sit and bet on whether the Han army would intercept it, on the contrary, he first asked Guan Yu to take the lead in the north with the former captain, and his goal was to attack the confluence of the Bianshui River at the confluence of the river, Guangwu City.

Guangwu City is the city of Xiang Yutun, the overlord of Western Chu, built on the mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If the Han army was to intercept it, the most convenient place would be to set up an ambush in Guangwu City.

That's right, river

Zhang Wen, the commander of the Southern Han Dynasty, did make the Guangwu City Pass Chief guard, but unfortunately, his people saw the magnificent scene of Guan Yuzhou's division going north, and directly abandoned the city, and this key pass was so in the hands of the Taishan army.

Zhang Wen didn't know this, and after arranging the strategy of blocking the north and chasing the south, he prepared for it.

He first let the former Huangfu Song's staff group stay in Aocang to form a new grain station and be responsible for the northward attack of the Han soldiers in Henan.

At this time, after Ao Cangsu passed through the Taishan Army's bulk grain and left with the ship, there was not much left. But it doesn't matter, as long as these grains are still in the hands of those leaders, there are naturally 10,000 ways to get them back. The Huangfu Song staff group headed by Zhong Xuan, Xun You, and others was left behind to do this. Anyway, for Zhang Wen, these Yuzhou people are not easy to use, so it is better to keep them as a grain supply.

After that, the protector Sima Fu Xie was also left in Xingyang by Zhang Wen as a defense on the periphery of Gyeonggi. Fu Xie is brave and strategic, and his temperament is calm enough, so he is suitable for this kind of thing. As for Sun Jian, Cao Cao, etc., Zhang Wen will also rely on the heavy responsibility in the later war.

Then, Zhu Jun, the general of Jianwei, also led 10,000 people to train the Xiandao and Zhang Wen separately, and they wanted to go east to Liyang to Juan County, where they crossed the big river and responded to the Hanoi army.

In this way, after arranging many means, Zhang Wen set off on October 1, leading 20,000 Henan Han soldiers to take the land route, and after the Taishan Army and Naval Division, he responded to the situation on the spot.

At this time, Lu Zhi, the general of Beizhong Lang in Handan, Zhao State, who was far away in Hebei, also received a letter from Zhang Wen four days ago.

Handan, the capital of ancient Zhao, is now the place where Beizhonglang will be stationed.

Handan was set as the capital of Zhao State, and its geographical location was exceptionally superior. He is Taihang on the left, surrounded by Zhangshui in the southeast, Yan and Zhuo in the north, according to a city, which can control the entire central and southern Hebei.

Not only that, when Handan was the capital of Zhao, the Zhao people also built four small city fortresses on the periphery of Handan. They are Wu'an at the west gate, guarding the Taihang Mountain pass; Shaoyang in the south gate, Linzhangshui; The columns of the East Gate, Zhangshui West. Finally, there is the North Gate Giant Bridge, where there is a granary, called the Giant Bridge Warehouse, which is also the largest granary in Hebei. It was with the supply of Juqiaocang that the Hebei Han soldiers could continue to fight after the supply of Aocang Su in the south was cut off.

It is precisely because of the food and danger that Handan has always been a battleground for soldiers. The weight of this place can be known by just one thing. In the eleventh year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Zhao Guoxiang Chen Feng rebelled, Liu Bang led the army to quell the rebellion, and saw that this Chen Feng did not occupy Handan, but went to guard Zhangshui. Therefore, it is known that this is an incompetent person.

Therefore, just like the reason why the ancestors of the Zhao people chose Handan back then, the current Lu Zhi also takes Handan as the main station. Last month, it was here to fight with the Hebei Yellow Turbans, although an important reason for the victory in this battle was that the Hedong Taishou Dong Zhuoshuai Army of 4,000 joined the battlefield in time. But a big victory is a big victory, and Zhang Liang, the general of the Yellow Turban in Hebei, was beheaded in this battle, which can be described as an unprecedented victory for the Han army in Hebei.

After that, the Han army continued to cultivate in Handan, with a small banquet on three days and a large banquet on the fifth day, and Lu Zhi used this method to maintain the morale of the army at a high level.

When Zhang Wen's feather was passed to Lu Zhi, the shogunate of the Hokkaiko Lang in Handan Castle was continuing to sing and dance.

Zhao Guo is heroic. This is manifested in the male performance of heroic bravery, reckless and righteous. In women, she is spontaneous and good at singing and dancing. Handan's female dancers have always been the top dancers, and only the real Dingshi family can raise a Handan dancer.

Cao Zhi, who is in the same historical heteroplane, once commented on this. He said:

"There are many demon girls in the famous capital, and Jingluo is a young man. The sword is worth a thousand gold, and the service is beautiful and fresh. Cockfighting East Suburbs Road, between horses and horses. I will return to a feast of peace and happiness, and a thousand wines."

This name is the capital, Handan, Linzi also. It can be seen that Handan is gorgeous in singing and dancing.

At this time, in the hall of the shogunate in the city, Bei Zhonglang will be the next cadre of military officials and the officials of the Hedong Taishou Dong Zhuo Army, enjoying Handan songs and dances.

I saw that in the hall, accompanied by the piano, the dancers raised their long robes, pampered their faces, and were pleasing to the eye. The moving dancing, enchanting figure, and ambiguous atmosphere all made the Han military officials fascinated.

Sitting at the top is Lu Zhi, in the graceful singing and dancing, he is still sitting upright, compared with the wandering skeleton of a military official, but

It is a gentleman. At this time, although he is forty years old, he is still tall and strong, which fully demonstrates the demeanor of Han Confucian. It's just that the gray beard under his chin can know how tired he is from quelling the rebellion in Hebei this time.

Singing, dancing, drinking, and music, Lu Zhi is not averse. Because he thinks that's the means, he wants the end. When he was young, he sat down to study in the great Confucian Ma Rong, because Ma Rong was from the Ma family, a relative, and he paid attention to the head of the noble relatives between walking and sleeping. When he was lecturing, in front of him was the song and dance of the warbler, the two columns were the people under the door, and behind him was the beautiful girl holding the fan.

When Lu Zhi was a young student, he studied in such an environment, but he did not squint, and he worked hard for several years. Because at that time, scripture was the means, and the Yingge Yan Dance would only affect his purpose.

But Confucius said that color eating is also. Lu Zhi does not reject pleasure, and he also agrees with his senior brother Zheng Xuan's so-called determination of the upper and lower, which is distinguished from these chapters and ceremonies. What kind of people watch what dances, listen to what songs, don't go overboard, and the world will not be chaotic.

Moreover, the current singing and dancing is also a means for him to maintain the feelings of the generals in the army, just like now, he is very familiar with this honest Taishou named Dong Zhuo. br>

So, Lu Zhi asked Dong Zhuo with a smile:

"Zhong Ying, what do you think of my Northland singing and dancing?"

This one is called Dong Zhuo, and now he is not called Feifei, but a heroic man with extraordinary power who can immediately open the bow left and right. The almond-sized tiger eyes, the dense beard, the thick neck, the muscles of the arms, and the waist and abdomen of the semi-round ball all show the terrifying strength of a strong man in Kansai.

Dong Zhuo listened to Lu Zhi's question, and said one word:

"Wonderful!"

Lu Zhi laughed when he heard it, he liked the sincerity of this kind of border people, it seems that this Dong Zhuo is such a sincere person!

So, Lu Zhi asked:

"Zhong Ying, I have also been to Kansai to study, and the Qiang girl dances beautifully, I think it is better than the Handan girl."

Dong Zhuo laughed, and even gave it to Lu Zhi, which means that you are always a particular person.

Dong Zhuo said while gesturing his hands:

"In the past, my old Dong also went to Jinan, and they all said that the style of Qidi was no worse than that of Zhaodi, but unfortunately, I was busy with war at that time, how could I have leisure, and I could sing and laugh today, and drink and meat constantly? All this thanks to General Kitakaro, come! I suggest that everyone raise a glass and congratulate the Hoknaka Lang."

As he spoke, Dong Zhuo drank all the wine in his cup, and his generals from the Hedong and Liangzhou departments over there all drank their glasses, and the officials of the Northern Army also cheered and drank it all, and the atmosphere was cheerful and hearty.

Lu Zhi, who was at the top, looked at the scene with a smile, and asked Dong Zhuo casually:

"Zhong Ying has also been to Jinan to quell the chaos?"

Dong Zhuo smashed his mouth, touched the wine stains on his beard, and said with a smile:

"Hey, Lao Dong was ignorant back then, and he became famous at a young age. When I was young, I became acquainted with Qiang Shuai, and a little thin name was turned into a soldier and a horse, and then I was turned into a thorn in the history of the assassination, and then I Lao Dong did Yu Linlang on Luo, and followed Zhang Shuai to ask for Qiang, smooth sailing, and all the way to the rank of Wuji captain with a rank of 2,000 stones. That will be my old Dong is only in his twenties, so I can't say that I am young. But then Lao Dong floated, committed a crime, was directly robbed, and became a criminal army subordinate to Duan Shuai's account. Twenty years ago, didn't Taishan have a rebellion against Gongsun Ju, and my old Dong stood up again in that battle."

After saying this, Dong Zhuo paused obviously, as if recalling that time, people.

That's right, our Dong Zhuo is our Sun Xun Sun Pavilion Chief's robe, it was he who saved Sun Xun and affected this grandmother-in-law. Twenty years later, Sun Xun died because he rescued Zhang Chong outside Juyeze, and the unpredictability of fate lies in this.

Also paused was Lu Zhi, who also paused when he heard Dong Zhuo talk about Taishan's rebellion, obviously thinking of the Taishan thieves who are now causing trouble in the court.

Here, he was about to ask Dong Zhuo what he thought of the Taishan thief, when there was a sudden burst of laughter from the hall. Lu Zhi turned his head to see that it was Tian Feng, a giant deer who was a Chinese official in the curtain.

Lu Zhi was a little unhappy when he saw him wearing a kudzu robe, and at this time, he was even more unhappy when he saw him interrupting him with a high laugh, and he asked in a muffled voice:

"Yuan Hao, why do you laugh like this?"

As soon as Lu Zhi's words came out, the audience was silent, and everyone heard the old handsome's unhappiness.

But Tian Feng still went his own way, he didn't seem to understand the meaning of the words, he suddenly stood up and laughed:

"I'm laughing at this Handan dance, it's too demon."

Goblin?

That's not a good word. What is a demon, it is different. In the Han Dynasty's re-diagrams, those who are not properly dressed are usually called demon suits, and once there is a demon suit, it will be regarded as a precursor to the chaos in the world.

Lu Zhi himself is Shuoru, and as soon as this Tian Feng's words came out, he knew what he was referring to, so he asked with a gloomy face:

"I don't think you're talking about dancing demons, you're trying to convince demons."

This Tian Fengyi twisted his head and said to Lu Zhi:

"Yes, my lord. I'm just convincing you. In the past, the generals who passed through the sun for dozens of generations were all dressed in women's clothes. When the wise man saw it, he thought that he was not convinced, and the disaster of his body was also a demon. Later, he was killed by Red Eyebrow; During the reign of Emperor Yuanjia of Emperor Houhuan, Kyoto women imitated Liang Ji's wife, painted their eyebrows, and wore makeup, which was also a demon, and then the Liang clan was exterminated;

Later, in Yanxi, the nobles of Kyoto wore clogs on their feet, which was also a demon service, and then the party rose up, causing trouble to wives and daughters, and these wives and daughters were also brought to the wooden flail, which was the sign of clogs; Later, the national banquet tour of the West Garden, as a businessman, this is also a demon. After that, Zhang Jiaozuo called the yellow scarf indiscriminately, and the world was in chaos. And today, I see that this Handan dancing girl is also serving demons, but I don't know who to be."

Tian Feng's words were really ugly, and everyone in the audience who heard them turned pale, especially Lu Zhi, who was the leader, his face was even darker, and he was scary to watch.

Lu Zhi scolded Tian Feng in his heart, he was really a Zhongshan wolf. Although this person has some talents, he is also well-informed, and he has also been conquered by the Taiwei Mansion and has been treated as a royal history. But before he met him, this person had already sunk into a subordinate, and it was he Lu Zhi who saw how talented this person was, so he didn't use his despicability to bring him into the scene. You know, if you can mix up qualifications from this Hebei counterinsurgency incident, how can you wait for the future future?

But this man repays himself like this? I raise a glass and you wrestle, and I have a banquet and you turn over the table. It's really against myself. And wasn't this person just cursing himself?

It's been a long time since Lu Zhi had been humiliated like this, but for the sake of decency, Lu Zhi still had to make a humble appearance, he was suppressing his anger, and suddenly a violent sound came from a corner of the banquet.

This time, Lu Zhi looked at it again, and it turned out to be his disciple Liu Bei.

At this time, Liu Bei's eyes were blood-red, and his whole person was burning like fireworks, and he scolded Tian Feng angrily:

"What a sellout, how dare you humiliate my teacher? Still obeying demons? You and other scribes are the real gossipes to confuse the public, and what you say in one mouth is as if the truth of the world is in your hands. But in reality? Have you ever been on the battlefield and killed a thief? While I waited for my brother to wash in blood, I am afraid that you would not hide under the cart and lie down to urinate. Rats."

Liu Bei's unique Youzhou mouth and the vulgar words directly made the military officials below laugh, and everyone patted the case and cheered.

Lu Zhi also looked at Liu Bei with satisfaction.

In fact, Liu Bei is not a disciple he values. In their lectures, according to the distance of the teaching space, the disciples are divided into those who are close to the relatives, the disciples outside the door, the disciples under the door, the disciples who sit down, and the disciples who enter the room.

Among them, the disciples outside the door are those who sit outside the door wall, and they are the least counted disciples. Every time a scholar like him Lu Zhi gives a lecture, thousands of people will listen, and most of them are such non-disciples.

Those who are a little closer than the disciples outside the door are the disciples of the disciples, which means that they sit in the courtyard when they listen to the lectures, this kind of thing is Liu Bei, who generally has some relationship with him Lu Zhi at home, and he has been teaching here for a long time.

Heavier than the disciples are the seated disciples, and these disciples are already sitting in the dormitory, with separate mats. Each of these people and those in the courtyard had to record their names on the wall of the door. Tell your successors who there were once disciples here.

But even more important than the above are the disciples who enter the house. The entrance to the room here is not in the dormitory, but into the teacher's private room, you can hear the face order at any time, and the names of these disciples are recorded as the screens passed down by each teacher. These are the most important academic successors of the department.

And the reason for this division is because the closer you are to the teacher, the less you will hear and understand. Moreover, the disciples will naturally suppress the disciples outside the door academically. Because the former only needs to say to the latter, I heard the teacher say this, did you hear it wrong if you were far away?

At that time, you would not be given the time and conditions to take notes. For example, when he was studying at Fu's Monastery before, he attended classes during the day and took notes at night, so he could record what the teacher said during the day. Even so, there are mistakes, omissions, and even misunderstandings of the original meaning. Therefore, after the second morning, you must go to the teacher for advice, so as not to go down the wrong path.

Otherwise, almost all of them have taken their own evil path. For example, when the Buddha was destroyed, Kasya, as a sutra, once heard in a remote place that someone had distorted the Buddha's scriptures and became the leader of the local Sangha, so he debated with him. Kasya's ability to win depends on his exchange of identities with the Buddha in monk's robes, and Kasya's authority on the interpretation of the Dharma.

Therefore, at this moment, Lu Zhi's mood is still agitated, I treat Xuande as a disciple, but Xuande repays me with a teacher. So he secretly put this love in his heart.

It's no wonder that Lu Zhi is grateful to Liu Bei. Because Tian Feng did say too much, in the ideology of the Han family, the idea is the most important, if Tian Feng blames this banquet for serving the demon, then if he loses this battle, he Lu Zhi will definitely be stinking for 10,000 years. Everyone will think that he caused the disaster of subduing demons and messed up the world.

Actually, is it really that magical?

Actually, it's just a reversal of the effect. Indeed, whenever the world changes, there are many phenomena of subduing demons. But in fact, it was not the demon service that caused the chaos, but the chaos that caused the demon service.

In this life, service has been seen throughout the ages as an important ritual for the construction of order. Different grades have different clothes, so depending on what you wear, you will know what your identity is. That is, identity and service are one.

But this etiquette will only be maintained when the imperial power has control. And once a court is weakened, there is no one to restrain the etiquette he originally constructed, and at this time, with the rise of people's love for beauty, all kinds of unconventional clothes appear. And this is also regarded as an arrogance by the orthodox scholars, and they are falsely called serving demons.

And now, Liu Bei's big trouble, coupled with the coaxing of everyone, Lu Zhi took advantage of the situation and retreated from Tian Feng. So after some laughter, Tian Feng fell into the field in the unwelcome of everyone, and only some Hebei military officials looked ambiguous.

In this way, a banquet that should have been extremely joyful, because of Tian Feng's trouble, became a farce. Just when Lu Zhi wanted to use some excuse for the final banquet, the feather letter that had been sent from Xingyang four days ago finally arrived in the hall.