Chapter 187: Millions of Yellow Turbans gather in Yanzhou
After leaving Zhang Jiao, Nan Hua looked at Hu Zhao doubtfully and asked, "Why didn't you tell him about the girl?"
"Nanhua, Nanhua." Hu Zhao chuckled and said, "You, the Yin and Yang family, control the stars and the secrets of heaven. But if the secrets of heaven are messed up, will you become an ordinary Taoist priest?"
"You..." Nan Hua was furious and immediately said sarcastically: "You are a powerful Legalist and master the study of emperors, but you are still being annexed by Confucianism."
"You can't guess the calculations of our Legal family." Hu Zhao was not angry and said with a smile: "Don't you see? I didn't tell your disciple because it was unnecessary!"
"Huh?" Nan Hua was stunned and then said, "You mean he knows?"
"He must know more than what we see!" Hu Zhao rolled his eyes and said matter-of-factly: "Don't underestimate your apprentice. You led a group of rogues to capture half of the country in half a year. Zhang Jiao is not as good as we imagined. It’s that simple.”
"But my stupid apprentice is completely unprepared for Dongfang Sheng!"
"The Taiping Guards are all in the hands of Dongfang Sheng. If there is a problem with Dongfang Sheng, can your apprentice safely hand over the Taiping Guards to this adopted daughter?"
"What?" Nan Hua was shocked and said in disbelief: "The Taiping Guard is actually in her hands? Is he really so confident about Dongfang Sheng?"
The Taiping Guard is the largest and only espionage agency of the Yellow Turban Army. It is responsible for gathering intelligence and infiltrating lurkers. The Taiping Guard played an indispensable role in why the Great So-and-so was paralyzed and why the Yellow Turban Uprising was so successful.
However, Nan Hua was really surprised that such an important department was in the hands of a woman.
"You have also seen that Dongfang Sheng has not done anything detrimental to the Yellow Turban Army, so there is nothing to worry about? Trust Brother Zhang Jiao's vision!"
"That's all!"
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August of the first year of Zhongping is destined to be an eventful month.
During this month, Qin Hao, son of Qin Wen, the prefect of Yanmen, set fire to Yanmen Pass and severely wounded the Xiongnu, establishing the greatest record of self-defense against foreigners since Huo.
Then Qin Wen, the prefect of Yanmen, wiped out 130,000 Yellow Turbans in one battle, winning Huangfu Song's second major victory since the Yellow Turban Uprising.
At the same time, Huangjin Zhangjiao was not willing to be left alone, and actually issued an order to forcibly collect food from the aristocratic family.
As soon as this order came out, the whole world was in an uproar.
All the aristocratic families understood that Zhang Jiao finally treated them
The move has been made, but the aristocratic family is not in trouble, so naturally they will not wait to be slaughtered.
Immediately afterwards, the Han court issued an order that local powerful men could recruit their own troops to fight against the Yellow Turban rebellion.
This edict allowed the Han Dynasty to continue to survive, but it also ruined the future of the Han Dynasty, and the imperial court completely lost local control from then on.
On the day the order was issued, aristocratic families from ten counties in Jizhou gathered together to resist the rule of the Yellow Turban Army.
The aristocratic families in small counties had thousands of soldiers, and in large counties thousands. The aristocratic families that successfully resisted would directly kill all the Yellow Turban guards and occupy the city, while the families that failed would be directly exterminated.
However, even if they temporarily occupy the city, the Yellow Turbans' conquest army will soon attack. Once the aristocratic family goes bankrupt and breaks through the city, the rebel families will directly kill the nine tribes.
Such iron-blooded methods immediately shocked most of the small and medium-sized aristocratic families. The small and medium-sized aristocratic families had small businesses and could not resist the general trend, so they had no choice but to hand over their grain reserves to protect the family. However, this bloody and violent method completely had the opposite effect on the big families.
With a big family and a big business, it is impossible to just sit back and give up family property out of thin air to let the Yellow Turban Army grow.
Soon, under the leadership of the Yellow Turban, there was a wave of resistance from aristocratic families in various places, and the seven states of Kanto were once again at war.
The city that the Yellow Turbans finally captured fell largely due to the aristocratic family's counterattack. Then the Yellow Turbans sent troops to conquer the city. After conquering the city, they exterminated the clans and ransacked their families.
In just one month, more than two hundred aristocratic families in Kanto were wiped out by the Yellow Turbans.
Of course, not all cities can be recaptured by the Yellow Turbans, such as Runan County where the Yuan family is located in Yuzhou, Donghai County where the Mi family is located in Xuzhou, Hejian County where the Zhen family is located in Jizhou, and Lujiang County where the Lu family is located in Yangzhou. The Yellow Turbans were unable to recapture Qiaojun where Cao's family and Xiahou's family were located in Yanzhou, etc.
It can be said that the relationship between the Yellow Turbans and the aristocratic family has become red-blooded. After this battle, the vitality of the Guandong aristocratic family was severely damaged.
Although the Yellow Turbans' sphere of influence has shrunk by nearly half, and their main battle strength has dropped by nearly two hundred thousand, their war potential has greatly increased.
The food, grass and wealth that the Yellow Turbans took from the noble families were enough to support the "big military training". After a year, the Yellow Turban army of one million was consumed!
The only fly in the ointment is that after the Yellow Turbans and the aristocratic families broke up, the Yellow Turbans not only massacred a large number of aristocratic families, but also massacred a large number of civilians.
The aristocratic family had a rich heritage, and they spared no effort to resist the Yellow Turbans. After spending a lot of money, the common people did not care about the poor aristocratic families, but instead helped the aristocratic families fight against the Yellow Turbans.
Under Zhang Jiao's strict order, the Yellow Turbans were strictly prohibited from attacking civilians, but now that the stupid people were coming to kill them, even Zhang Jiao couldn't restrain them.
Nearly a million people died in the Central Plains at the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, but not even one-tenth of the people were loyal to the family. After this crazy killing, the mentality of the Yellow Turban Army also changed.
Why on earth should we fight bloody battles for these stupid people?
Are they worthy?
Under the deliberate propaganda of the Han Dynasty, the good reputation of the Yellow Turbans was severely damaged. Many people were suspicious of the Yellow Turban Army, but the Yellow Turban Army, which had decided to burn everything, no longer cared about this at all.
After Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang had "brought disaster" to most of the aristocratic families in Youzhou and Qingzhou, they each led an army of 150,000 and provisions to meet with Zhang Jiao in Jizhou.
For a time, the power of the Yellow Turbans in Jizhou expanded unprecedentedly. Six hundred and fifty thousand Yellow Turban troops gathered in Guangzong, which frightened Huangfu Song half to death. He immediately ordered to defend to the death.
However, what Zhang Liang didn't know was that as soon as he left, Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan jointly launched a counterattack. At this time, the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang also led their self-recruited Xiang Yong to join Liu Yu's army.
With the help of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who were the brave champions of the three armies, Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan's Youzhou coalition fought and won consecutive battles. Their morale was as high as a rainbow, and they finally drove the Yellow Turban forces out of Youzhou bit by bit.
When Zhang Bao arrived before leaving, he arranged Qingzhou securely. Now, except for Kong Rong in Beihai and Song Jiang in Liangshan, who still have the power to resist, Qingzhou has been completely occupied.
Kong Rong was a scholar, but he was more defensive than aggressive. As for Liangshan Song Jiang, after barely resisting Zhang Bao's offensive, Liangshan's strength was greatly reduced, and how could he still have the courage to dare to pull out the tiger's beard in the Yellow Turban.
After Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang's army arrived, Zhang Jiao soon personally led an army of 400,000 people south to Yanzhou. Zhang Bao, Zhang Baiqi, Zhang Xianzhong and others were left behind to lead an army of 250,000 people to block Huangfu Song's army. The main road prevents Huangfu Song's army from leaving Jizhou.
At the same time, Xiang Yan from Yuzhou, Hong Xiuquan from Yangzhou, Xiang Yu from Xuzhou, and other major canal commanders from Yellow Turban all led their troops and rushed towards Yanzhou.
Millions of Yellow Turban troops will gather in Yanzhou!
