Chapter 060: [The Great War is Imminent] (Part II)
I'm Liu Bei.
Summer is the season of passion, and it is the sublimation of the love of life in the warm spring. As a result, summer fills our hearts with passion, energizes our bodies, and makes our ideals more persistent.
When people with the same ideals come together, they form groups, organizations, and even nations that represent their own interests. When organizations representing different interests meet and are incompatible, a brawl occurs and gradually expands, from a heads-up to a group fight. And the two million armies tore each other apart, which is definitely the pinnacle of group fighting. It also represents the desperate struggle between two incompatible and incompatible group interests.
What the ruler of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, and his nobles needed was a corrupt life of drunken gold and gold obtained by constantly squeezing the common people, and this constant oppression created the corrupt Han court and its opponent, the Yellow Turban Taiping Dao.
The Yellow Turban Taiping Road represents the interests of the majority of people who are oppressed and cannot bear it. Therefore, since the Yellow Turban Uprising, they have not only been suppressed by the Han court, but also rejected and attacked by most of the common people who were oppressed by the Han court but could endure the oppression of the court. Therefore, the failure of the Yellow Turban is a doomed end. No matter how brilliant the leaders who make up the core of the Yellow Turban leadership are, how powerful they are, and how strategically they are, they cannot change the fate of failure.
So, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was suppressed within a year. In the years that followed, small uprisings continued intermittently, but they were like abandoned sparks that could not start a prairie fire.
That's how history goes. However, when you really immerse yourself in the scene and become a member of the Han Army or the Yellow Turban, it is a different feeling.
That's how I am at this time.
As a member of the Han army, I have the obligation and the right to put out this "just" rebellion.
The sky is finally dawning, and I don't know if today is the day of the decisive battle between the Yellow Turban and the court. My view to the west was blocked by the hills in the distance. So I couldn't help but tilt my head up and watch the gray sky open and gradually brighten and turn blue.
Suddenly, a strong wind swept across the hills. The wind was howling, faintly mixed with a slight shout. I listened with bated breath as the sound was behind the hills to the west. I ran after it, and I was very excited. This sound may be the shout of the armies of both sides.
After running hundreds of steps, a high cliff appeared in front of him, ten zhang high. The cliffs are overgrown with weeds, and the large sloping trees stand on all sides. The cliff stretches out on both sides, and there is no end in sight, as if it is a large screen, telling us that the scenery behind us is beautiful, but visitors must stop.
The cliff stands upright in front of you, and one wonders about what is behind it.
"It's ingenious." I sighed. What kind of terrain is this? I have been to many famous mountains and rivers, but I have never seen such terrain. Nowadays, it is impossible to climb and see what is behind it.
"I heard that four hundred years ago, the great rivers around me flooded many places. Qin Shi Huang ordered people to build a long causeway here, but I didn't think it would be true. This should be the that was left at that time. Zhang He said next to him. His voice startled me. This Hebei dialect suddenly sounded from behind, but it was very similar to the language of the thousand-year-old dryad.
So it was. I said, how can there be such a clever place? Qin Shi Huang did something surprising. What is the Great Wall, the book burning pit, and I don't know how many people died at that time. It's just that this thing is really beautiful, and I guess that the flood of that year is comparable to the catastrophic flood of 98.
"Legend has it that there is a thousand-year-old dryad living on it, so no one around has ever gone up there." Huzi said from afar.
"Brother Zhang, do you see if you can climb up?" I'm guessing that this is very likely to be the place of decisive battle, even if you know you can't do it, you have to do it.
"I don't have the ability to do that." Zhang He looked up at the cliff and sighed.
"If the monkey is there, he will be able to climb it." Huzi also raised his head and sighed. "However, I have a way to get up, but it's dangerous."
"What?" I asked excitedly.
"This cliff is overgrown with big trees, and we can use a human ladder to lie on the trees and build a human ladder. Then you climb up again, Captain. It should be possible. Meng Shouli touched his chin and said.
"That's what I mean!" Huzi also said.
"However, it is very dangerous to erect a ladder at such a high level. If you don't get it right, you will die. I said worriedly.
"Danger should also be done. The situation is urgent, and I can't take care of so much. I'm going to pick someone. Meng Shouli said as he left.
I knew the danger, but I didn't stop it. Because the shouts behind the cliffs are clearly discernible. At this time, I dare to conclude that the day of the decisive battle is today. Moreover, the location is just behind the cliffs.
Listening to the shouts in my ears, my heart was so anxious.
Meng Shouli quickly selected more than fifty people with particularly flexible hands and feet, and began to build a human ladder.
This kind of ladder lying on the surface of the branches is very unstable, and requires the lowest manpower to be strong enough to bear the weight of the people above. If you can't bear it and fall, then the top one will fall down, and the consequences are very serious. So the lowest responsibility is the greatest.
In order to reduce the weight, two people stand below, and the next person who goes up steps on one shoulder with each foot. The one who went up in the back was one top one. In this way, one by one, they climbed up, and the former person supported the latter person.
Thirteen men soon went up, and just as the fourteenth was about to go up, the penultimate man at the bottom fell. So the top twelve all fell one after another.
The scene was terrible. My heart was entangled when I saw it.
Two fell to their deaths on the spot, three fell to serious injuries, and the remaining seven suffered minor injuries of varying degrees.
It turns out that we miscalculated. The heaviest bearer is the second ladder below, which is the third person. Thinking of this, my heart was very self-blaming, my eyes were swollen and red, and my throat was already choked.
However, at this time we have no time to mourn.
"Grandma's, come again!" Meng Shouli roared. He personally made the second ladder, and Huzi made the third ladder. Zhang He was also about to go up, but I stopped him. Because I need someone to go up with me and discuss what to do. And this person has to be Zhang He.
This time it finally worked. The human ladder is composed of a total of eighteen people, like a hanging ladder lowered on it, which is really attached to the surface of the tree.
Looking at Meng Shouli and Huzi, who were grinning with their teeth, I stepped up quickly. Every step I take, I feel like I am stepping on a warm blood, and my heart is very moved.
In order to lighten their weight, I quickly climbed to the top of the cliff. The top of the cliff is three zhang wide, and when viewed from above, it is in the shape of a half-trapezoid. The surrounding area is still surrounded by large forests and denser weeds.
I cautiously climbed up the side branch of a large tree and followed it to the main trunk. As I stood at the highest trunk bifurcation point, sweating profusely, I noticed a thunderous cry from the west.
"Hey...... Roar...... Hey...... "Roar" is very rhythmic. There was also the sound of drums.
When he looked up, he was covered with dense branches and leaves, and he couldn't see anything. I began to slash with the ringhead knife. A moment later, Zhang He came up and slashed together. After a long time, Zhang He first slowly stepped in front.
"(yes)...... (yes)...... Decisive battle. ”
After listening to Zhang He's call, I hurriedly dragged the branch and walked over. I just felt that the vision in front of me gradually widened.