In the fifth month of the third year since the founding of the State of Yan.
The land of Central Plains.
On the south bank of the Hun River that divides the north and the south, this is Linzhou of the Wei State across the river from Fenzhou. War has started in the north, and warships are attacking on the river. On the south bank, an army of the Yan State has stepped up and is fighting with the state and counties. Soldiers and horses fight.
At this time, people from towns and villages were everywhere on the roads, dragging their families and families on the road to escape from the soldiers.
The wealthy families in the three counties of Linzhou used ox-carts and horse-drawn carriages to load their goods, and took their maids and servants with them on the road. They lost their previous identities and crowded on the road like ordinary people. Suddenly, there was a roar of people and a group of soldiers from the county in the distance. Horses galloped past the fields on the side.
In front of them, a group of Taiping Taoist believers with their heads wrapped in yellow scarves and sackcloth suddenly met. Their numbers were about the same, and they started fighting on the field.
The sudden war broke out, and the frightened people panicked and rushed wildly. In the chaos, the lost children stood on the roadside crying for their parents, and the old man couldn't walk on crutches, looking pitifully at the crowded queue. , and soon he could not find his family. However, as the fleeing people rushed to every branch of the road, they could see soldiers and horses from nearby states and counties, or believers wearing yellow scarves holding sharp knives, or groups of farm tools. .
They once heard that Taiping Dao was preaching in Linzhou. Some people joined and others scorned it. However, later on, more and more believers came to Linzhou, and sometimes they could be seen in the streets of the city. These believers were chanting on the streets. : "Xuanshui descended from the sky, Ganfu rescued the disaster, Huangtian showed his appearance, and the Three Lords came..."
Now, Taiping Road suddenly rebelled the day before yesterday. In the three counties, 40,000 Yellow Turban believers attacked the government granary and distributed food to the poor, attracting siege by officers and soldiers.
Instead, they were ambushed halfway by two generals, Di Gong and Ren Gong, and defeated the troops who came to encircle and suppress them. The atmosphere among the counties, counties and villages in Linzhou became uneasy and faintly restless.
When the states, counties and counties received the news, they urgently closed the city gates and walls. There are many more manpower on the street, and even police officers have joined the patrol team.
However, they underestimated the appeal of Taiping Dao who had been entrenched in Linzhou for more than a year. After defeating 10,000 state and county soldiers, more Yellow Turban believers emerged from villages, villages, and places where people gathered in various places. They used to be The honest farmers in the village, who were being exploited and oppressed, heard about the concept of Taiping Dao and had some sustenance in their hearts. Even though they accepted the yellow scarf, they never wore it on their heads, but just kept it at home as an enshrinement.
Still working in the fields, working at sunrise and resting at sunset.
When the news came that the local soldiers and horses were defeated, many people who had been honest seemed to have a fire lit in their hearts. They wrapped the yellow scarves on their foreheads, took the hoes and poles from home, and gathered in a mighty manner. , Li Zheng from the countryside came to dissuade or scold him, and then the other party's body was hung under a branch by the once honest farmer.
As the Yellow Turban cultists who followed San Gong, they sent messages to various villages, and the villagers and tenant farmers took crude weapons. The first ones to be killed were Li Zheng and others who were usually domineering.
In the two days from 19 to 20, the gathered Yellow Turban cultists spread around as quickly as possible, attacking counties and towns in groups.
For the local soldiers and horses of the Wei State, everything they saw before them felt like a dream. The usually honest farmers, armed with crude weapons, rushed toward them desperately.
The weapons are simple, but the number is several times that of these soldiers. At a glance, there are figures wrapped in yellow scarves everywhere, like a sea wave, sweeping towards them feverishly.
Without any rules or formations, he ran directly into the forest of guns and crushed them.
The initial feeling of confusion and confusion suddenly turned into a huge and overwhelming fear as the waves of attack and comrades in front were being killed one after another.
These 'ant colonies' with their heads wrapped in yellow scarves rushed forward desperately, using hoes, poles, and a small number of captured knives and guns, slashing and stabbing the crowd crazily. The soldiers and horses in these places were frightened by this momentum, and the front line was After the human corpses were crushed, they began to retreat, then avoided and crowded each other, and then collapsed and pushed backwards, squeezed out of the array, and ran towards the rear.
After defeating several local soldiers and horses that were captured, a group of Yellow Turban believers became even more fanatical as if they had been beaten to death. They rushed to the village and called on more people to join in, or continued to attack the local soldiers and horses that kept gathering and blocking them. Wherever the dense 'ant tide' hits, a shocking battlefield will take place.
The beacon smoke rose crazily, and the reinforcements who heard the news rushed forward, then retreated in a rout, formed a team, rushed up again, and were defeated again, but they were unable to shake the huge crowd.
On the 21st, the beacon fire spread from east to west, and the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out, which was responded to by many mountain bandits. They also joined in, wrapped in yellow scarves. They were as huge as the tide. Most of them were farmers, vendors, thieves, They formed a broken army, killing people and setting fires all the way, and quickly advanced to the border of Ganzhou adjacent to Linzhou. At this time, they were only two states away from Yangzhou where Luyang, the capital of Wei, was located.
The governor of Ganzhou immediately dispatched soldiers and assembled troops from several counties, totaling 47,000 soldiers and horses, and set up a battle array at the junction of Ganzhou and Lin to prevent Taiping Taoist believers from rushing into Ganzhou.
Soon after, they looked at the dense crowd in the distance and followed three figures on horseback. They retreated to the left and right and lowered their bodies. Behind the three people, there were thousands of tall warriors wearing yellow scarves walking with dull footsteps. .
"My brother, following the order of King Xia, came to Wei to preach for more than a year. The Taiping teachings have spread throughout Linzhou, but my brother's footprints have already traveled to several states in Wei."
The wind blew, the sky became gloomy, and there was a faint sound of thunder rolling through the clouds.
Zhang Liang, who was holding a gun and armor, reined in the reins and looked to the sky; Zhang Bao raised his face slightly, with a solemn expression and a proud smile on his lips.
In front of them, Zhang Jiao on horseback held the Imperial Master's Seal in his hand, speaking in a calm voice, his hanging hair stroking slightly in the wind.
"This summer the king sends his troops south to conquer Wei. The sky has risen and the divine wind is coming from the north. You and all living beings should welcome the great road!"
As the sound spread, the low-lying believers around them straightened up one after another, with fierce expressions on their faces, and looked at the 40,000-strong army on the opposite side.
"The Central Plains will change, ghosts will appear in the tombs of Wei, dragon veins will appear in Ganzhou, all the disciples will follow me there..."
Thunder rumbled across the sky, and streaks of green and white lightning flashed in the clouds. Zhang Jiao picked up the seal and slowly raised his hands. The Ganzhou soldiers and horses opposite were a little surprised and dazed. The leading general pointed at the stall on horseback. The old man who opened his hands burst out laughing.
Over there, Zhang Jue's voice continued, and the thunder became more frequent, "... holding the golden sword to cut off the spirit of the emperor..."
Under the sky, two blue and white electric lights snaked down like two big snakes.
Over there, Zhang Jue suddenly jumped up, in mid-air, grabbed the falling electric snake with both hands, and said in a high-pitched voice: "Zou! Please! Da! Wei! Go! Die -"
boom!
Thunder exploded, resounding across the sky and the earth. At the same time, in mid-air, a figure was bathed in the green and white lightning, arms spread out.
The double electric currents were like whips, sweeping across the wilderness.
The heavy rain in early summer poured down, and lightning and human screams echoed through the rain.
Amidst the lightning and thunder, countless figures wrapped in yellow scarves rushed forward through the heavy rain.
Crowds all over the mountains and plains rushed into the front line covering their eyes and screaming.
Hoes and poles were waved, spears and blades were stabbed and chopped, blood flowed, and bodies fell.
Countless footsteps follow Qu Shuai as he kills through the crowd, chasing the defeated crowd.
Heavy rain poured down, and the figure of the yellow scarf spread through every village and market town. More people were wrapped up, and it spread like a huge ant colony towards Ganzhou.
Then, it exploded and spread around again in different shapes.
…
In Linzhou, since the outbreak of Taiping Road, the fighting on the south bank of the Hun River has also come to an end. Zhang Fei waved his arm and threw away the general hanging on the snake spear. In the heavy rain, he reined in his horse and turned back.
"Tiger Step Camp, control the river bank and welcome the army to cross the river!"
(End of chapter)
