When Shen Chen learned that he had another elder, it was already two days later.

The Han Dynasty called the mother's father not grandfather, but grandfather.

His maternal grandfather is Deng Hong's own cousin, so he will call Deng Hong the sixth maternal uncle and grandfather, which is equivalent to the meaning of the hall.

So what should Deng Hong's child be called?

From seventeen uncles or aunts.

Because the Deng family is a big family, there are six brothers in Deng Hong's generation, and there are even more in the next generation.

Shen Chen's mother still has to call Deng Hong's children younger brothers and sisters.

It's really uncomfortable to be young.

Shen Chen's face was dark all day, his generation in the clan was not big, all of them were his elders, even Zhuge Liang was two generations older than him, and now there was another one.

But it can't be helped, who made him have a bad background?

I can't blame my parents, why are you not a famous family, why is your seniority not higher.

Of course.

There is good news, too.

Liu Biao decided to send troops.

Follow the plan and start luring the yellow turbans around Nanyang.

Zhang Xiu also quickly wrote to the leaders of the surrounding Yellow Turban Army, asking He Yi and Liu Bi, Huang Shao, He Man and others to come to Nanyang for a big dinner.

By mid-February, Cao Cao had also led his troops to Yingchuan and Runan Yellow Turbans.

At this time, He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man and others had also learned the news and immediately began to send people to contact Yuan Shu.

But what kind of bird is Yuan Shu?

is still dreaming of the emperor's Spring and Autumn Festival, and he doesn't pay attention to them at all.

This led to the fact that in the face of Cao Cao's wolf-like soldiers, the Yellow Turban Army fell into isolation.

Because He Yi's territory was in Yingchuan County, and Cao Cao sent troops from Chen Liu, and attacked He Yi's old nest Xu County, so that he was defeated and had to gather a crowd to flee south.

After entering Runan, he joined forces with Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man and others, and Cao Cao's troops were already approaching, killing Wuyang, Xiping, Dingying and other places.

At this moment, in Xiping County, Huang Shao's territory, He Yi, Liu Bi, Huang Shao, He Man and others gathered together to discuss how to deal with Cao Cao.

Everyone sat in columns, He Yi looked around at everyone and said: "Everyone, that Cao Cao has already killed us in front of us, and he is about to get rid of us all, are you just watching the sword and axe add to your body and die to the end?" ”

"Cao Cao is powerful, with many soldiers and horses, I'm afraid it will be difficult to match him head-on." Liu Bi said with a sad face.

"yes, I should think of a countermeasure." Huang Shao also said.

He Yi said anxiously: "Then you think, in my opinion, everyone should join forces to fight against Cao Cao." ”

"Joint? How to unite? ”

He Man on the side sneered: "You can't hold Yingchuan by yourself, and now you have to come to us again." It's nothing more than dragging us into the water, wanting us to help you deal with Cao Cao, why should I help you. ”

"He Man, what are you talking nonsense?"

He Yi was furious and said: "I know that you complained about my attack on you last time, but you know in your heart that it is now the autumn of our life and death, and if we don't join forces, we will all be killed by Cao Cao." ”

"Hmph."

He Man said coldly: "At least I haven't been attacked by Cao Cao now, what does it matter to me." ”

"You gutless rat!"

He Yi was furious and furious, drawing his knife to slash.

"Come on."

He Man did not show weakness, and also drew his knife to fight back.

"You two stop."

"The enemy is still fighting among themselves, what do you want to do?"

"Don't fight."

Liu Bi and Huang Shao hurriedly dissuaded them, and after a while, chickens and dogs jumped, and they were finally persuaded to do so.

History records of their gang in the tens of thousands.

But in fact, these tens of thousands include the elderly, weak, women and children.

In fact, the soldiers who can really fight are less than 10,000 each, or even less, only a few thousand.

Otherwise, Cao Cao only has forty or fifty thousand horses, and they have tens of thousands, adding up to more than 100,000 people, so they should have the strength to fight with Cao Cao.

In addition to the small number of troops, more importantly, the internal friction of the Yellow Turban Army is also relatively serious, and there are many fights with each other.

Since Zhang Jiao's death, the Yellow Turban Army has been scattered, working independently, and although they occasionally unite with each other, most of the time they are on their own guard and deal with them carefully, and it is difficult to form a unified command.

Therefore, Cao Cao broke them one by one, first breaking the Yingchuan Yellow Turban, and then attacking the Runan Yellow Turban.

And this attack also made Cao Cao earn a lot of money, harvested a large number of laborers and cattle, and made full preparations for the tuntian system.

At this moment, He Yi and the others naturally didn't know that they were a stepping stone to Cao Cao's success in history, but they also knew very well that if they didn't do something now, they would definitely be wiped out by Cao Cao.

So infighting is infighting, under the persuasion of Liu Bi and Huang Shao, He Yi and He Man still didn't fight in the end, one sat down angrily, and the other sneered on the side.

At this time, the soldiers guarding the door outside came to report: "Report, Chief Gong is here." ”

"Gong is here?"

Huang Shao said, "Let him in." ”

Gongdu was stationed in Shangcai, because it was on the east bank of Rushui, far away, but it came the latest.

As soon as he came in, he saw that the situation on the field was quite tense, and asked in wonder, "What's the matter?" Cao Cao hasn't come yet, but you guys hit it first. ”

He Yi put away the knife and said to He Manu, "You ask him." ”

"Forget it, what's there to be noisy about."

Huang Shao waved his hand to He Man, who was about to have a seizure, and said, "Now think about how to deal with Cao Cao." ”

"How else can we deal with it, the knives are all on our necks."

He Yi said coldly: "If you want to die, then wait here and sit and wait to die, I don't want to die anyway." ”

"How? Have you beaten anyone? ”

He Man spread his hands and said: "Our combined strength is only twenty or thirty thousand people, the soldiers have no fighting spirit, the weapons are not good weapons, and there is no armor, what can we do to fight others?" ”

The world knows that the Han Dynasty ring head knife was a sharp weapon against the northern nomads, but they do not know that the production of iron tools in the Han Dynasty was extremely limited.

Therefore, there are actually very few real ring-headed steel knives, only the regular army of the central government, that is, the five schools of the Northern Army.

At that time, the iron ore was in the hands of the imperial court, and the technology of the steel frying method was relatively backward, far inferior to the steel filling method, so that the folk iron tools were mainly pig iron and wrought iron.

The weapons of the Yellow Turban Army are often only the generals who have steel knives, and the weapons and equipment of ordinary soldiers are very poor.

How bad is it?

In the early days of the Yellow Turban Uprising, farm tools, wooden spears, bronze tools, and a small number of cast iron blades were the mainstream weapons of the rebel army.

Even more than a decade after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, they did not develop much.

Due to the suppression of the imperial court and local princes, the Yellow Turban Army at the bottom is very worrying in terms of the quality of soldiers and weapons and equipment.

Therefore, in the face of the wolf-like Cao army, not to mention that their number of soldiers and horses is far less than that of Cao Cao, but also that the weapons and equipment are too poor, they can't fight at all.

Otherwise, the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" in history said that each of them had tens of thousands, if these tens of thousands were all soldiers and had enough weapons and equipment, then their strength was stronger than Yuan Shu, and Cao Cao would not be able to beat them.

Therefore, the truth of the few words in the history books is actually that tens of thousands of people include men, women, children, women and children, only a few thousand soldiers, and the weapons and equipment are also very poor, so they are not Cao Cao's opponents at all.

Now they are also very aware of this, even if the five stronger leaders gather together and concentrate all their forces, it is impossible to defeat Cao Cao.

As a result, everyone here had a sad face and a deep sense of despair.

And at this time, Gong Du looked at the four people who looked lonely, scratched his head and said, "Since you can't beat it, it's a big deal to escape." ”

"Where can I escape?"

Liu Pi laughed at himself: "Cao Cao in the north, Yuan Shu in the east, and Liu Biao in the south, do you want to flee to Gaoling Mountain?" ”

Gong Du said: "Go to Nanyang." ”

"Nanyang?"

He Man shook his head and said, "Will Liu Biao agree?" ”

"If he doesn't agree, he has to agree."

Gong Du took out a few bamboo slips and said: "This is the letter I intercepted on the road, it was Zhang Xiu, the leader of the Xiliang Army, who sent cavalry scouts to us, they originally went to Yingchuan and Runan to deliver the letter, but I didn't expect you to be Cao ** to Xiping, just met me outside the city, let me pass it on to you." ”

"Are you sure you didn't rob it?"

He Yi looked at him suspiciously as he finished the letter.

Gong Du said embarrassedly: "At first, I really wanted to snatch their horses, but they were good at equestrianism, so I dropped the letter and left." ”

The people were literate.

However, there are always literate people in the Great Yellow Turban Army, such as the Yellow Turban Taoist priests who were left behind.

After finding someone to read the letter, they understood what was going on.

Zhang Xiu went south from Guanzhong to Wuguan, defeated the army sent by Liu Biao, and occupied Nanyang.

Because he felt that he was weak and was afraid that Liu Biao's army would be overwhelmed, he invited them to join him in Nanyang and participate in the grand event.

"Is this embroidery reliable?"

After reading the letter, He Man was very suspicious, and he had never heard of a big leader named Zhang Xiu in the Xiliang army.

Huang Shao thought for a while and said, "Anyway, it's not far from Nanyang, send someone to inquire?" ”

Zhang Ji attacked Nanyang at the end of January, and it has only been less than a month, and the ancient news is blocked, only those who have migrated from the north to Nanyang, and very few Nanyang have moved out, so they don't know that something big has happened in Nanyang.

At that moment, Huang Shao immediately sent someone to ride to Nanyang to investigate the news, Xiping can be said to be close to Nanyang, and the nearest place is only more than ten kilometers, but to find out the news, you have to go to Wancheng.

Zhang Xiu had already entered Wancheng at this time, so two days later, they got the latest information about Nanyang.

In January, Zhang Ji, the leader of the Western Liang Army, attacked Nanyang and was shot dead by a stray arrow in the city.

Zhang Ji's nephew, Zhang Xiu, took his place and continued the attack.

The defender of the city of Pingcheng, Wen Ping, was defeated and was forced to withdraw his troops, and the defender of Huyang, Deng Ji, and the defenders of Fancheng, Liu Wei and Wang Jie, were defeated by Zhang Xiu in the field.

Since then, Zhang Xiu has occupied Wancheng.

Except for the defeat of Wenpin, these news are basically true and can stand up to scrutiny.

And Liu Biao also cooperated with Zhang Xiu to withdraw Wenpin to Xinye, and after Zhang Xiu entered Wancheng, he declared with great fanfare that he had defeated Liu Biao and occupied Nanyang.

For a while, the entire people of Nanyang thought that Zhang Xiu had become their ruler, and it briefly caused a certain amount of panic.

Fortunately, Zhang Xiu immediately posted a list to calm the people, and ordered Xiliang Junqiu to do nothing, so as to calm the people's hearts.

After learning the news, the five leaders convened again.

This time, they did not hesitate at all, and all agreed to the decision to go to Nanyang to join Zhang Xiu.

After all, the Xiliang Army is strong in combat and is indeed an object that can be relied on.

And just when Yingchuan Runan Yellow Turban, as well as a large number of dozens of yellow turban forces around Nanyang, were invited by Zhang Xiu to Nanyang to participate in the grand event.

In late February, after more than ten days of rest, Cao Cao prepared to attack Runan in the south.

Cao Cao is happy now.

Because after conquering Xu County, he captured a large number of He Yi's materials, including a large number of ploughing cattle and young laborers, which supplemented him with a lot of resources.

Therefore, after learning that He Yi had fled to Runan and joined the Runan Yellow Turban, Cao Cao was even more full of expectations for them.

"The Yellow Turbans are a good thing."

On the way to Dingling, Cao Cao rode a tall horse and said to Cao Hong and Cao Ren beside him.

He compared the Yellow Turban Army to things, because he couldn't make a fortune all these years without the Yellow Turban.

First of all, the reason why he was able to get Yanzhou was that the Yellow Turban Yudang Black Mountain Army Kou Luo Yanzhou, Yanzhou assassin Liu Dai was killed.

Chen Gong and others recommended him as the assassin of Yanzhou, and he had a basic plate.

Immediately afterwards, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban came to send head equipment, and millions of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were captured by him, and 40,000 or 50,000 elites were recruited, becoming Cao Cao's early Qingzhou soldiers.

Now it has attacked the Yellow Turban in Runan, Yingchuan, and captured a large amount of supplies.

It can be said that if there was no Yellow Turban Army, there would be no Cao Cao today, and now he can have this power, all of which was given by the Yellow Turban.

Cao Hong said with a smile: "Yes, I didn't expect them to have such abundant supplies, I knew that they had so much grain and grass and cattle, and they should have eliminated the Yingchuan Yellow Turban a long time ago." ”

Cao Cao looked around, overlooking Rushui in the distance, the vast plain, everywhere is deserted land, and sighed for a while: "Yingchuan and Runan have been the prosperous places of the Central Plains since ancient times, but unfortunately the mountains and rivers are broken now, if you can occupy this place to recuperate, it should be good." ”

Cao Hong said: "Let's drive away the Yingchuan Yellow Turban, and just move the people here." ”

"Hmm."

Cao Cao nodded, looking from afar, after Dingling, he was about to reach Runan.

Cao Ren didn't say a word beside him, his ears were cut off, although the wound was healed, but the wound in his heart was difficult to heal, so he became more and more silent, looked at the south calmly, and suddenly said: "The Shen clan seems to have migrated to Nanyang." ”

Cao Cao glanced at Cao Ren, whose face was like wood, and sighed: "Zixiao, I know that you have resentment in your heart. But we must also focus on major events, and we will talk about revenge in the future. ”

"Big brother I know, I'll just keep remembering."

Cao Ren turned his head and looked in the direction of Runan, at this moment, he had to transfer all his anger to the head of the Yellow Turban Army.

Because only by occupying Yingchuan and Runan, the power of their Cao clan can be touched to Nanyang.

However, what Cao Cao didn't expect was that this trip was destined to disappoint him.

The army passed through Dingling and approached the area of Wuyang Xiping.

But the scouts reported that there were no Yellow Turbans in the city.

Cao Cao was very puzzled, so he intensified his efforts and spread scouts to find out the whereabouts of the Yellow Turban Army.

A few days later, the scouts returned, and more than ten days ago, more than 100,000 Yellow Turban troops such as He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man, and Gong Du united and went to Nanyang.

Meanwhile.

Nanyang Bowang Mountain, northeast of Wancheng, enters the gateway of Nanyang.

Gan Ning, Deng Hong, Shen Chen, and more than 20 cavalrymen were on the top of the mountain at this time, overlooking the mighty Yellow Turban army in the north.

The bottom of the mountain is densely packed with migratory populations, helping the old and the young, and running to Nanyang.

Most of what Shen Chen saw were ordinary people, and only a few soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army protected them as they went south, which was definitely good news for them.

At this time, he opened his hands and hugged the front of him, because standing on the top of the mountain, he seemed to take the dense crowd under the mountain into his arms.

"Welcome to Nanyang."

He said.