Tongbai Mountain, Taipingding, the main altar of South Taiping Road is located.

As the main altar of the South Taiping Road that affects Jianghuai, Jingxiang and Ruying, it naturally has a bearing there.

Its scale is mainly reflected in this Taiping Peak.

The whole mountain peak is centered on Mingtang, and it is a group of South Taiping Dao commanders including Liu Pi and Gong Du. Then down the ridgeline sat some generals with slightly higher status, Yellow Turban Warriors.

These are the core leaders of Taiping Dao, and they all live on Taiping Peak. At the foot of the mountain, a square area has also been formed, where senior members of the South Taiping Road live.

No one can say how many people live in this area, but there are more than 10,000 people. In addition to supplying all the needs of the peak, these core members spend the rest of their time reciting the Taiping Sutra.

Therefore, Taiping Peak is always surrounded by continuous chanting, sacred and solemn.

In fact, the spatial structure of Taiping Peak reflects the structure of secular power that South Taiping Dao aspires to build.

In the entire pyramid of the sect, the top of the peak is the head of the canal in the sect, and then below are the samurai and yellow turban wrestlers who master the force, they serve as the force guarantee of the Taiping Dao, and the lowest level is the sect, who are responsible for farming to supply the above two classes.

It can be said that at this time, South Taiping Road has developed a relatively mature organizational structure.

Taiping Peak is only the core of Tongbai Mountain, in many other peaks, there are also various squares, they and the surrounding ravines, watchtowers, ditches, and earthen walls guard Taiping Peak in the middle.

All of the above together constitute the defense structure of the Yellow Turban of Tongbai Mountain.

And now, when Yuan's army broke through its outermost Yangkou wall, there were still about 100,000 people living in this mountainous area.

And the vast majority of these 100,000 people are farmers and craftsmen.

Because the Taishan Army has always attached great importance to craftsmen, this also naturally affected Liu Pi and them, in the process of expanding their believers, Liu Pi and they consciously gathered all kinds of craftsmen to Tongbai Mountain to form their own processing capacity.

These craftsmen range from blacksmiths, swordsmiths, and armorers to lacquerers, coopers, and potters.

There were also some merchants who lived here, and these people were responsible for trafficking the mountain goods in exchange for the needs of the mountain. It can be said that Tongbai Mountain is a miniature country, and it is no wonder that their own people call it a paradise on earth.

Previously, because of the reason that the sword was forged as a plow, there were not many troops in Tongbai Mountain. However, as the external situation deteriorated, and fears that Yuan Shao might turn against his goals, Taiping Dao began to rebuild the Yellow Turban Army.

This time, with sufficient financial resources and the lessons learned from the past, Liu Pi and his team began to organize and train the army with a relatively regular military system.

It drew 30,000 good fighters from the disciples of Nanyang and Runan Dao, and was divided into six divisions, with the number "Zhonghuang Taiyi Six Divisions." And it should be pointed out that these people are only professional soldiers, which does not mean that other believers do not need to serve.

In fact, whether in the past or now, the Yellow Turban Army has always pursued the strategy of all the people being soldiers, and all the believers of Zhonghuang Taiyi must contribute to the war.

Now these people may not have to bear the responsibility of soldiers, but they still need to participate in the construction of ravines, earthen walls and other fortifications, so it can be said that Taiping Road does not support idlers.

Originally, with such a huge manpower, the confrontational religion was transformed into a welfare religion, and it stands to reason that it is really possible to open up a happy land in this troubled world.

But unfortunately, they met Yuan Shao, the male lord of Qiankun.

It can also be seen from here that Liu Pi and these people may also have one or two abilities, but they really lack sufficient overall vision.

They still think that the reason why Yuan Shao wants to attack them is because Yuan Shao is worried about their rations.

In fact, this thought is only the first layer, and the deeper meaning is that Yuan Shao has never mentioned it to others.

That involves Yuan Shao's selfishness of not being humane.

What is the situation today? Few people who have insight into the big picture can say a thing or two.

From north to south, it is now the Taishan Army that monopolizes You, Ping, and Hebei; Then there is the Kansai court to hold Yong, Long, and, Yi; The Kwantung court was based on Gyeonggi and Hanoi, Cao Cao was based on Qingzhou, Tao Qian was based on Xuzhou, and Yanzhou was the second of the three Taishan Army, and Zhang Miao accounted for one of them; Yuan Shu occupies Nanyang, and Liu Biao occupies Jingxiang. He Yuan Shao occupied Yuzhou.

It can be said that the current situation is very clear.

That is, Yuan Shao's surrounding forces are either allies or brothers, and only the Kwantung court in the north and Liu Biao in the southwest corner can start.

This is not to say that you can't attack your allies, such as Zhang Miao and Cao Cao, and he Yuan Shao is not a person who pays attention to these, but the point is that there is a Taishan army in the north.

When the general trend in the north was pressing, he Yuan Shao needed allies such as Cao Cao and Zhang Miao to share the pressure.

What about the Kwantung court in Gyeonggi?

Yuan Shao didn't plan to attack, even if the banner of his army was to overthrow the Han family, even if he had a deep blood feud with the Kwantung court, he didn't plan to attack Gyeonggi.

This was decided by him from a geographical point of view, because once he attacked Gyeonggi, then his defensive pressure would be particularly high.

In addition to dealing with the counteroffensive of Guanxi in the north and west of Hedong, it will also make his contact with the Taishan army larger, which is not conducive to Yuan Shao's defense.

After all, only Jingzhou in the southwest and Yangzhou in the south can be used as the direction of expansion in the next stage.

And if you don't die, the passage from Yuzhou to these two places was occupied by the Yellow Turban Army. There are two passages into Jingxiang from Yuzhou.

One is from Yingchuan, Kunyang, Yexian to the east through Fangcheng Xia Road into Nanyang.

Fangcheng Xia Road is actually a passage between the Funiu Mountains and the Tongbai Mountains, from which you can enter Nanyang along the Lishui.

After arriving in the Nanyang Basin, you can go south along the valley of the tributaries of the Baihe River and enter Jingxiang.

This road is the best way to go, and it is also the passage that the king of Chu took to the north to fight for hegemony in the Central Plains several times in the past, but unfortunately Yuan Shao couldn't take it.

It is impossible for Yuan Shu in Nanyang to let Yuan Shao cross his own realm, not to mention that his younger brother is also fighting Jing Xiang's idea, and he Yuan Shao can't expose his intentions.

Therefore, the only road left for Yuan Shao is the second road, that is, directly crossing the Tongbai Mountains.

And from the ancestors to open up the mountain road to the Chu State Jianguan, there are three mountain roads from Runan to Jingxiang, and these three passes are called Yiyang Sanguan.

Its three passes from west to east, respectively called Ming Lang (now Pingjing Pass), Zhiyuan (now Wusheng Pass), the Great Tunnel (now Jiuli Pass), are the three relatively flat tunnels in the rugged two mountain ranges.

It can be said that if Nanyang can't go, then these three roads can also go directly to Jingxiang.

However, the biggest risk of walking here is that you can easily get trapped in the valley, so you have to be surprised if you want to win these three levels.

And Yuan Shaoxin's adviser Guo Jia offered him such a strategy, attacking the yellow turban openly and the three levels in the dark.

Moreover, the Yellow Turbans are entrenched in Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain respectively, which threatens Yuan Shao's back road, so it must be eradicated.

It can be said that if you want to use troops to achieve unexpected results, you must go through these three levels.

In the future Liberation War, there was an army that went to the three passes of Yiyang, and then advanced thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains, threatening the hinterland of the Yangtze River Basin, creating conditions for the subsequent Huaihai Campaign.

Not to mention that in the future, in fact, Sun Wu and Wu Zixu led the Wu army to attack the Chu State, and they also took the Sanguan Channel.

In the battle of Wu and Chu that year, in order to guard against Wu in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the Chu State deployed most of its troops on the line of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, that is, from Jiujiang to Anqing.

However, Sun Tzu's pioneering sword went sideways, and he took 30,000 Wu State light armor to the north through Hangou into the Huai River, and then went up the Huai River all the way up to Tongbai Mountain.

We also said before that the source of the Huai River is in Tongbai Mountain.

After Sun Tzu arrived at the source of the Huai River, he abandoned the boat and landed on the shore, and attacked the Chu State from between Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, that is, the three passes of Yiyang. was taken by surprise and attacked the hinterland of Chu in one fell swoop.

Now Yuan Shao's great strategist Guo Jia has offered him such a strategy, which is really a dangerous word for using soldiers.

Today, Yuan Shao is actually a two-step process.

First, first annihilate and defeat the yellow turban of Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, and collect their grain and horses.

Second, the direction of the expedition and suppression army was adjusted, and it passed directly through the three passes of Yiyang and entered Jiangxia County in Jingzhou.

Today's Jiangxia Taishou is the Huang ancestor of Liu Biao, and his family is from the Jiangxia Huang family, a wealthy family for many generations, so Jiangxia is not easy to fight.

But even Yuan Shu didn't expect that Yuan Shao would be a conquest of the Yellow Turban, intended to be Jing Xiang, let alone Huang Zu?

Once Yuan Shao occupied Jiangxia, he could directly attack Jiangling to the east, cut off Nanyang to the north, and go directly south to Yangzhou.

It can be said that once Yuan Shao occupied Jiangxia, the entire strategy of Yuan's army was alive.

At that time, with a broader depth and resources in the entire south, Yuan Shao could fight a decisive battle with the Taishan army in the Central Plains. And when the time comes, his stupid younger brother Yuan Shu will be completely surrounded by him, and then he will have to be his own brother forever.

The development of the current situation is like this, always in a dynamic equilibrium.

The Taishan army is strong, but whether it is Yuan Shao or Cao Cao, they are both male masters, and they will not be willing to be killed. So Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou and tried to capture Qingxu, and Yuan Shao did the same, preparing to fly to capture the three passes and enter Jingzhou.

And the above are Yuan Jun's top secrets, and only Yuan Shao and a few strategists know about them, so of course Liu Pi has no way of knowing.

And he and his own group of Qu Shuai do not have an excellent strategic vision, and they can't think of these things.

As a result, these people can only see the present and try to cope with the current crisis.

The eagle soars for thousands of miles, and the male rabbit can only see the light in front of him. But in nature, there are often miracles of rabbits pedaling eagles.

A long-term war depends on the strategic advantages and disadvantages of both sides, but the outcome of a war is only related to the present. Do the officials have a dead heart? Calling up and down with life? Is there an indispensable breath?

Therefore, less wins more, and weak wins stronger always from time to time.

And once it appears, no matter how good the strategy is, it is useless.

Is it okay to just be a Yellow Turban?

Let's look at General Yuan, suppress the Yellow Turban, and secretly cross the three passes.