One hundred and twenty-four horns of anxiety
This time, Zhang Jiao absorbed the experience of the previous failure and made a comprehensive arrangement.
He plans to mobilize a total of 340,000 Taiping Daoists in the eight states of the country to launch an earth-shaking uprising, break the corrupt rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty in one fell swoop, establish the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under the rule of Taiping Dao, and everyone will be happy together.
Everyone agreed to launch an uprising on March 15 of the seventh year of Guanghe, and the agreed slogan was "The year is in Jiazi, the world is auspicious".
There were many participants in this uprising, from the poor Li Shu who lost their land to the officials in the government, from the homeless people to the rich and noble landlords and powerful people, from the exploited to the exploiters.
It can be called a pot of social class hodgepodge in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Believers from all walks of life who are dissatisfied with the status quo have mobilized.
Believers all over the country seem to have transcended the boundaries of the era of taking the county as the country, breaking through all barriers and uniting together, and will send the strongest voice of their time to the decaying and decaying Eastern Han Dynasty.
For this incident, Zhang Jiao can be said to be quite excited.
He excitedly told his relatives and family members about his emotions, telling them that the great Yellow Sky World was coming, and the prosperous era belonging to the Taiping Dao was coming.
He took the initiative to communicate with the 36 Fang Qu Shuai, exchanged letters, and told them when to start the uprising, how to conquer the city, how to eliminate the lackeys of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and so on.
Then, through a series of information submitted to him by the believers about the military deployment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he also shared it with the 36 Fang Qu Marshals, providing them with sufficient military information so that they could eliminate the local resistance forces of the Eastern Han Dynasty at the first time.
And for Luoyang, who he fears the most, he also has corresponding arrangements.
He sent his trusted disciple Ma Yuanyi to plan the overall planning, preparing to carry out a bold decapitation tactic, and unite the eunuchs in the court who were dissatisfied with the status quo who were convinced that [Cangtian is dead and Huang Tian should stand] to assassinate Liu Hong.
As long as Liu Hong is dead, the central Han Dynasty will be in chaos, and at that time, the entire Eastern Han Dynasty center will be destroyed, and the local area will almost be his world.
Zhang Jiao still has a deep understanding of the military strength of the Eastern Han Empire, including the more than 10,000 professional central armies and more than 200,000 garrison troops across the country, which are not easy to deal with.
His side seemed to be huge, but in terms of combat effectiveness, he was obviously not the opponent of the group of veterans who licked blood from the knife edge, so he clearly knew that the key victory point of this uprising was the devastating blow to this pair of Luo Yang.
The importance of Luoyang to the Eastern Han Empire is self-evident.
As long as the center can be destroyed, the formidable military power of the Eastern Han Empire cannot be co-ordinated and commanded, and without co-ordination and command, there will not be enough deterrence, and he will be able to fight all the way to Luoyang to seize the bird position, win the final victory, and establish the Huangtian Prosperous Era.
But in other words, if this move cannot be done well, and the Luoyang plan cannot be implemented smoothly, then there will be a big problem.
Once caught in a tug-of-war with the central government of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the weaknesses of the Taiping Daoists who had not received comprehensive military training would all be exposed, and even if they could defeat the Han army with a momentum in the early stage, it would not last long.
Therefore, killing with one blow is the action that Zhang Jiao has the greatest expectation, and he has been paying close attention to the news from Ma Yuanyi's side.
In addition to paying attention to Ma Yuanyi's news, he also needs to hide his actions in a certain sense, so that some local official figures cannot notice the anomaly, so he is still doing "leading people to good" missionary activities as the government expects.
As long as Ma Yuanyi's side is ready, then we will wait for the auspicious day of March 15 next year.
But Zhang Jiao couldn't have imagined that a person who couldn't fight with him was planning his death, just as he was planning Liu Hong's death.
It can be called a void tactical converter.
Zhang Jiao's early missionary success was inseparable from reaching out to the masses and mingling with them, and it was precisely because of his extensive contact with the masses that he was able to spread his reputation throughout most of the Han Empire in a way that was different from the mutual praise of the scholars.
Until now, although Zhang Jiao has been able to get in touch with a large number of powerful people in the Han Empire, and his status is different from what it used to be, he still has not given up this attitude of going deep into the masses and mingling with the masses.
For various reasons, in this period of time, which was only a few months before the uprising, he appeared more frequently, disseminated teachings more frequently, and contacted local powerful people more frequently than in previous years, instead of living in seclusion and engaging in mysteries.
He is like an ordinary old man, on the eve of the upcoming uprising of the army, he is still doing what he usually does, and his big heart is breathtaking.
He felt that everything was developing in a good place, and the only thing that worried him was that his body had not been very good during this time, and he had been getting better very slowly after taking medicine.
One younger brother Zhang Liang was secretly planning the incident, while the other brother Zhang Bao took time out to stay with him and personally attend to his illness.
In the early morning of December 23, the sixth year of Guanghe, Zhang Jiao, who was about to start another day of missionary activities, coughed a few times at home, cleared his throat, and felt uncomfortable.
Zhang Bao brought him the fried medicinal soup and watched him drink the medicinal soup with his own eyes.
After drinking, Zhang Jiao smacked his mouth, and his face was bitter.
"It's so bitter, no matter how many times you drink it, it's bitter."
"Bitterness is good medicine."
Zhang Bao smiled, took out a piece of caramel and handed it to Zhang Jiao: "If it's bitter, eat a piece of sugar." ”
Zhang Jiao quickly stuffed the candy into his mouth, and the bitterness on his face gradually subsided.
"If you can't eat caramel syrup, drinking medicine is a first-class hard work, if you have caramel syrup, drinking medicine is a thing worth looking forward to, Bao, don't you say things in this world are very interesting?"
"My brother thinks it's funny, but I don't think this candy is precious."
Zhang Bao said with a smile: "But if my brother can be comfortable, it will be worth it, brother, your illness should be cured quickly, so that you can take us to establish the world of the Yellow Sky together." ”
Zhang Jiao smiled.
"Don't worry, the sky hasn't been killed yet, how can anything happen to me? It's you, don't always be with me, Liang needs more on his side, I have some people on my side to accompany me, anyway, it's not a big deal, Liang is running around every day now, contacting this and that, I think he is the most tired. ”
Zhang Bao shook his head again and again.
"Brother's affairs are the most important thing, without my brother, our big things will not be successful, brother must pay attention to his body, dare not take himself lightly."
Hearing this, Zhang Jiao sighed slightly.
"This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is Luoyang, I don't know if Yuanyi's side can arrange everything properly, his side has become, we can only succeed here, otherwise, it will be really dangerous."
"With my brother here, no matter how dangerous it is, I have always believed so."
Zhang Bao smiled: "My brother is our backbone. ”
"That's what you said."
Zhang Jiao smiled, and then showed some dissatisfied looks: "This is the case in Hebei, after crossing the big river, it may not be the case, a few people in Nanyang and Yingchuan have been very slack on me recently, and they don't write to me much, and I have to write to inquire about the matter myself, otherwise they won't take the initiative to inform me." ”
Zhang Bao also knows a lot about this, and he is quite dissatisfied.
"Brother still believes in them too much, when he is in front of his brother, they are all good disciples of his brother, as soon as he leaves his brother and goes to those places, I am afraid that it will be too late to be a prince, and they are all waiting for the incident to break the ground and seal the marquis."
(End of chapter)