Chapter 26: Huang Chao, the man destined for the world of cholera
Some people may not be outstanding in martial arts or top-notch in intelligence, but they are destined to become the source of cholera in the world. Huang Chao is such a person!
The Yellow Turban Army has gone through many detours in the original history, but in this life, with Huang Chao, the rebel king with an intelligence of 95, as its military advisor, the Yellow Turban Army will naturally not take the detours it has taken before and continue to make the same mistakes.
The Yellow Turban Uprising made two biggest mistakes in original history. First, it offended the world's noble families, and second, it was a bandit strategy. There are two points to say, but in fact there is only one point, that is, the Yellow Turban Army has offended the world's noble families, so they have to adopt bandit tactics.
Why did the Yellow Turban Army offend the famous families in the world?
At the beginning of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu gained the support of the aristocratic families in re-establishing the Han Dynasty by promising to share the world with the aristocratic families in the world. However, this also created a situation that the aristocratic families cannot get rid of today.
The total number of wealthy families is less than 1% of the total number of Han people, but they occupy 95% of the world's wealth, and they still wantonly invade people's fields through various legal or illegal means. The people can no longer survive, naturally. Will stand up and resist.
Almost all of the Yellow Turban Army are poor people like this, so it is not difficult to imagine what the Yellow Turban Army's attitude towards wealthy families is.
In the original history, the Yellow Turban Army treated aristocratic families without distinguishing between good and bad, and directly massacred them on sight, so they were naturally boycotted by all the aristocratic families. This directly resulted in the fact that whenever the Yellow Turbans attacked the city, the aristocratic families in the city would unite to help the Han Dynasty. The army defended the city.
Moreover, the support from the aristocratic family is very strong. They want money for money, food for food, and materials for materials. If they still can't hold on, they will even send private soldiers to help defend the city.
It's impossible not to help. Once the city is destroyed, the whole family will be destroyed. All the clan members will be killed, and the family fortune will be cheaper than the Yellow Turban Thief. This is unacceptable to all the aristocratic families, so naturally they will resist.
Therefore, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was not Zhang Jiao's rebellion against the Han Dynasty, but rather the poor people's rebellion against the rich. This was caused by the long-standing class contradictions within the Han Dynasty, which triggered a battle between the poor and the rich. In the war between the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turbans represented the poor class, while the Han Dynasty represented the aristocratic class.
What do the poor people have? There is nothing but itself. But wealthy families control power, material wealth and knowledge, so the competition between poor people and wealthy families has always been unfair.
The power of the aristocratic families during the Eastern Han Dynasty was far greater than that of other dynasties. Even the Han Dynasty did not dare to move lightly, let alone Zhang Jiao? So from the moment they stood on the opposite side of the world's aristocratic families, the Yellow Turban Uprising was doomed to fail.
After the Han Dynasty had aristocratic families to help defend the city, the defensive power immediately increased greatly, while the advancement speed of the Yellow Turban Army was greatly reduced, until finally the successors were weak and stagnated.
Failure to capture the city means that the team cannot continue to grow in strength. At this time, the Han Dynasty has reacted. When faced with the crisis of national subjugation, the burst of strength is also extremely amazing. If the Yellow Turbans want to resist, they have to change their strategies. Use rogue strategies to strengthen yourself, otherwise you will only be wiped out.
But this life is different. With the wise man Huang Chao here, he will naturally not watch the Yellow Turban Army jump into the pit.
Huang Chao first stated to Zhang Jiao the disadvantages of offending the world's aristocratic family and the disadvantages to future development in front of all the commanders. Huang Chao thought that everyone would agree with him if he told the truth, but he did not expect to be expelled. In addition to Zhang Jiao, all Qu Shuai, including Hong Xiuquan and Fang La, opposed it.
At this time, Huang Chao realized how resentful the Yellow Turbans, or rather the people, were towards the aristocratic family. Although Huang Chao also belonged to a poor family, the family was not unable to expose the blame, so he did not understand this resentment deeply at first, but now he understands it. This kind of resentment was not formed in a day or two, but accumulated over 200 years. It is almost impossible to resolve. Even if I and others do not take action, there will definitely be people who will stand up against the Han in the future. The Han should be in trouble.
Although all Qu Shuai disagreed, Huang Chao did not give up, but changed his approach to persuade from another angle.
Huang Chao said this, the Han Dynasty and the aristocratic family are like two big mountains. If the Yellow Turban wants to completely move them, it will definitely consume a lot of energy and time. If the two mountains are moved together, it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the gain will not be worth the loss. It will be much easier if you move them one by one.
The Han Dynasty and the Aristocratic Family are like these two mountains. After destroying the Han Dynasty, we can turn our guns against the Aristocratic Family without too late! It would be time-consuming and labor-intensive to deal with the two together, so why not use a time-saving and labor-saving method?
Huang Chao's concise metaphor made all the commanders fall silent. In the end, Zhang Jiao decided to change the original policy of the Yellow Turban Army, so that it would no longer target the aristocratic families in the world, but the small aristocratic families that were causing trouble.
Zhang Jiao didn't know that his decision saved the Yellow Turban Army, which was doomed to fail. If the Yellow Turban Army still stood on the opposite side of the world's aristocratic families, even with the help of Xiang Yu and other summoned figures, it was destined to fail. After all, no matter how strong an individual is, he cannot resist the general trend.
The Yellow Turban Army changed its attitude towards the world's aristocratic families. Seeing that the Yellow Turban Army did not provoke them, the world's aristocratic families would naturally not take the trouble to provoke the Yellow Turban Army. They no longer cared about the rise and fall of the Han Dynasty. They only cared about the rise and fall of their own family. , besides there is nothing wrong with the change of dynasty, maybe it will be an opportunity for your family to grow!
Of course, there are still people who care about those notorious little aristocratic families. When these aristocratic families saw that those ordinary pariahs actually dared to stand up and rebel, and attacked themselves just because of a trivial matter, they were immediately horrified, so they tried their best to Assist officers and soldiers in defending the city.
After all, the power of the small aristocratic family is limited, and it cannot play a big role at all. However, to the garrisoned officers and soldiers, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, which is better than nothing!
Under the influence of Huang Chao, the Yellow Turban Army in this generation was not attacked by the joint attacks of the world's famous families. Before the Han Dynasty could react, the siege of the city was naturally very smooth. With a base area that continued to supply blood, the Yellow Turban Army naturally did not need to compete with the original history. Follow the same tactics as the bandits!
What is rogue strategy?
Even if they ignore production and farming, they do not take occupying territory as their main purpose. After capturing the city, they mainly use looting to quickly increase the strength of the rebel army in a short period of time.
The rogue strategy has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it can indeed strengthen the strength of the rebel army in a short period of time, so that it can have a better chance of winning when facing encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers.
The disadvantage is that it is difficult to control. It is easy to say at first, but after tasting the benefits, the red-eyed rebels will no longer care about etiquette and morality. By then, the rebels will become a rebel army, and their reputation will be completely ruined. And it will bring great damage to society.
Huang Chao's own path of rebellion followed the rogue strategy. No, it was more thorough than the rogue strategy. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it the locust route.
Of course, the reason why Huang Chao did this was because he had no choice. If he had a choice, with Huang Chao's 95 points of intelligence, he would never choose the popular bandit strategy.
Huang Chao does not have as good a foundation for rebellion as Zhang Jiao. The rebel army is not only small in number, but also in a passive state. Under such a situation where the strength of the enemy and ourselves is too disparate, if the strategy of rogue bandits is not adopted, what awaits Huang Chao There is only one way to be wiped out.
In history, Huang Chao brought rogue warfare and mobile warfare to the extreme. In the high-intensity continuous battles, the team not only did not reduce its personnel, but also fought more and more. After the rebels broke through a city, they immediately seized food and destroyed the city, and the people lost their homes and food. In the end, other than joining the rebels, there was no other option but to starve to death.
Whenever the rebel army ran out of food and grass, Huang Chao would directly feed the food with human flesh. Therefore, wherever Huang Chao's army went, they were almost all covered with blood. The local people were not killed, but eaten.
The reputation of Demon King Huang Chao also comes from this. With this cruel method, Huang Chao broke the Tang army's blockade time and time again, and brought huge losses to the Tang army. In the end, he brought down the Tang Dynasty and ruined the greatest empire in Chinese history. dynasty.
It is precisely because Huang Chao's reputation is extremely bad that he understands how important a good reputation is. Conquering the world is not something that happens overnight. Without a good reputation to attract heroes from all over the world to actively invest, it is almost impossible to achieve success.
As long as the rogue strategy is followed, the reputation of the rebel army will be completely ruined sooner or later. This is almost impossible to change. Not only will no talented people defect to the army, but even the common people will not take the initiative to join the rebel army, and the team will no longer receive regular support. The replenishment of troops is a fatal blow to any rebel army.
But why did the Yellow Turban Army adopt the policy of rogue bandits in history?
Regardless of the scale of the Yellow Turban Uprising in original history, there were over a million rebels at the beginning, and later it spread to tens of millions of people. After the Han Dynasty experienced this riot, the population directly increased from 50 million to 50 million. It dropped to more than 30 million, and more than 10 million people died in this, which shows how much damage the Yellow Turban Uprising caused.
However, although the damage was great, the Yellow Turban Army did not actually capture much territory. The obstruction of the aristocratic families caused great difficulties to the Yellow Turban Army's siege. In fact, the actual occupied territory was not even a state, and there was a gap between the territories. It can't even be connected, it's just a piece of enclave, and it's possible to be recaptured by the Han Dynasty at any time.
That's why the Yellow Turban Army followed the bandit strategy, because instead of being wiped out one by one by the Han Dynasty's concentrated forces, it would be better to practice bandit warfare and take the initiative to attack, which might still have a chance of survival.
In the face of life and death, reputation is somewhat insignificant. After all, if you can't even save your life, what's the use of fame?
Huang Chao's suggestion gave the Golden Uprising, which was destined to fail, a slight chance of success. He only killed small aristocratic families who did evil. Although he offended the aristocratic family, he did not offend the family to death, and he would not stand on the opposite side of the aristocratic families in the world.
As for the Yellow Turban Army, which had no aristocratic family to block it, its offensive was almost smooth sailing. After capturing the city, the Yellow Turban Army immediately punished the evildoers, released grain and recruited troops. After leaving part of the garrison force, the main Yellow Turban army immediately continued to attack other cities.
Although doing so will cause the dispersion of troops and affect combat effectiveness as the territory expands, it can ensure the stability of rule, continuously inject blood to the Yellow Turban Army, and enhance sustained combat capabilities.
Of course, in addition to the above, Huang Chao also formulated a strategy for Zhang Jiao to unify the world: the three-step strategy of the Yellow Turban Heavenly Kingdom.
The first step is to concentrate on capturing Yuzhou.
Due to the uneven distribution of the power of the Taiping Religion in various places, the strength of some places is actually not enough to deal with the local officers and soldiers, so Huang Chao suggested to Zhang Jiao that the relatively weak ones among the 36th Route Rebels should be transferred away from the local area first and concentrate their strength first. Capture important and captureable territory.
Ten birds in the forest are worse than one in the hand.
Since the Taiping Sect has the greatest influence in Yuzhou, and Yuzhou is the richest and most populous state in the Han Dynasty, it has become Huang Chao's first target.
After Zhang Jiao saw Huang Chao's plan, he thought it was very feasible, so he directly transferred 12 of the 36 canal commanders to carry out the incident in Yuzhou, and also sent Xiang Yan there to ensure nothing went wrong.
The second step is to occupy the Central Plains as the main one, hb as the secondary, and Jing Yang as the second. The Central Plains refers to the three states of Yan, Henan and Xu, while hb refers to the four states of Hebei, Qingyou and You.
Although the Central Plains is easy to attack and difficult to defend, because it is located in the hinterland, there are fewer defenders, wealth and a large population. If the Central Plains can be completely occupied, millions of troops can be obtained.
The terrain of hb is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but if it is fully occupied, it can become an invincible position.
Our Taiping Sect has the weakest power in Jingyang, so we can postpone the attack on the two states without wasting too much strength. We only need a partial force to take what we can, and let go if we can't.
As for the third step of Huang Chao's plan, it is much simpler and cruder. Based on the realization of the second step, the Yellow Turbans' millions of soldiers will directly crush Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty, and destroy the Han Dynasty in one battle.
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