The World of Yellow Sky

The sobbing sergeant finally stopped crying. He glanced at the ring-headed knife hanging on his neck, with a hint of determination in his eyes, he threw himself forward, and the sharp ring-headed knife directly cut through his throat.

He slanted to the ground, his chest heaving up and down, blood gushing out one by one along the tear at the throat, and then there was no sound after a while.

Xu An didn't expect that the sergeant kept crying, but he was so determined to ask for death that he was a little moved for a while, and the surrounding yellow scarves were also stunned by the sergeant.

However, there are people in this world who are loyal and righteous, there are people who sacrifice their lives for righteousness, but there are also people who are greedy for life and fear death.

"I said, I said, I said..."

In the end, the Han soldier who fell to the ground at the beginning was already panicked when he saw the two robes dead. Just as Xu An turned his eyes to look at him, he kowtowed like a chicken pecking at rice and begged for mercy.

Chapter 24 Dive into the Abyss

The sergeant was so frightened that he told all the things Xu An wanted to know about the various situations in Jingxing and the rumors and situations of the surrounding Han army, towns, and Taihang Mountains like beans pouring into a bamboo tube.

Although the Han army did not have any spare energy to fight against the bandits in the Taihang Mountains for the time being, they also dispatched scouts to conduct simple reconnaissance, then recorded them, and combined them with the topographical map found in Jihe's room.

Xu An and Liu Pi frowned and watched for a long time, barely understanding most of the text, and finally got the information and approximate location of some thieves in Taihang Mountain at this time.

In today's Taihang Mountains, there are countless thieves, big and small, among them, the most powerful ones are:

Huanglong, Zuojiao, Guo Daxian, Yu Digen, Pinghan, Daji, Sili, Zhuzai, Baique, Yang Feng, Wulu, Li Damu, Bairao, Kushui, Yudu, Qingniujiao, Qigu, a total of sixteen stock power.

The powerful forces are as powerful as poison, Qi Gu and others have more than ten thousand thieves and bandits all over the place, and there are three or four thousand small ones, occupying a small corner.

At this time, there were four big bandit forces around Jingxing Pass: Qingniujiao, Huanglong, Li Damu, and Yu Digen.The strength of the four forces is about the same, and they all look like three to 4000 soldiers.

Xu An kept moving his finger on the topographic map spread on the ground, and finally stopped his finger on a part of the map. Liu Pi and Gong Du also attached to the map and looked at the map. That place was occupied by a small bandit force. Place - Lutai Mountain.

Occupying Lutai Mountain is a group of small thieves, about 400 to [-] people. I heard that they are just ordinary people who were forced to become bandits in order to avoid taxes. Several people from the settlement chose a mountain to build a village together. Falling grass, evading corvee and taxes.

According to the records of the Han army, Lutai Mountain is named Lutai Mountain because the top of the mountain is quite flat and there are often deer on the top. The terrain is quite dangerous and difficult to attack.

Xu An pushed the map towards Liu Pi and Gong Du and asked, "How is this place?"

Liu Pi looked at the records about Lutai Mountain next to him, touched his mustache, and said with a smile: "This place is really good, a group of civilians are not strong in combat, and the terrain is dangerous, Gong Manzi, what do you think? "

Gong Du groaned and glared at Liu Pi, quite annoyed: "What do I think, it's not that you don't know that I can't read, I'll take a look and you can decide."

When Xu An and Liu Pi heard Gong Du's words, they laughed together. Gong Du's face became hot from the laughter, his eyes rolled and he slapped his thigh suddenly and said, "Oh, I forgot."

He hurriedly stood up and called a few soldiers next to him to take the opportunity to slip away. He muttered and said, "I'm going to see how the military equipment at Jingxing Pass is. You guys continue to talk, continue to talk."

"This Gong Manzi—"

Liu Pi looked at Gong Du who had fled in the desert, shook his head and felt helpless, and then seemed to suddenly remember something, looked at Xu An with a serious face, Xu An was a little hairy at the sight.

"Although there are only more than [-] people in this team, we still have to distinguish between superiors and inferiors. The three of us are all handsome, and the soldiers don't know who to listen to at critical times. It will be fine for a while, but I'm afraid they will in the future. There is chaos."

Liu Pi looked around and continued: "You proposed to enter the Taihang Mountains, and you are also a direct disciple of General Ren Gong. My immortal book of Taiping Tao, the Taiping Jing, is also in your hands, so Gong and I both want to You are promoted to general."

Although Xu An was overjoyed in his heart, he still showed embarrassment, and said in a pretense of excuses: "Xu's qualifications are still inexperienced..."

Liu Pi leaned forward and said sincerely again: "To be honest, in the battle of Xia Quyang, the army was defeated like a mountain, and I almost felt like the world had collapsed. If it weren't for Xu An, you stood up at the critical moment, and hundreds of us would have died a long time ago." I don't know where he died."

Liu Pi took a half step back and bowed respectfully to Xu An, shouting loudly, "Also invite Xu Qushuai to be promoted to general!"

The surrounding yellow angels also gathered, and they all knelt on the ground and shouted together: "Please also ask Xu Qushuai to be promoted to the general!"

Xu An didn't know where he was at this time, Liu Pi had already negotiated with the rest of the people.

Thinking of this, Xu An did not pretend to be pretentious, stretched out his hands to help Liu Pi up in front of him, and then made a series to the surrounding yellow angels, and said aloud: "Thanks to the trust of all my colleagues, if you are a general, you will definitely Hold high the banner of Yellow Heaven, eradicate the beasts of the sky, and avenge the hundreds of thousands of comrades who perished in the world!"

Xu An pulled out the ring-shaped knife around his waist, and cut a log at his feet into two pieces with one knife. Holding the cold-looking ring-shaped knife, he pointed at the broken log with the tip of the knife and shouted loudly: "If you violate the law, he shouted loudly. This oath is so hard!"

"Runan Taiping Road Canal Commander Liu Pi pays a visit to the general!" Liu Pi bowed again.

The surrounding Huang Tian also bowed down with Liu Pi, and there was an endless stream of voices coming from the crowd.

"Pan Zhong, the yellow angel of Taiping Road, pays a visit to the general!"

"The Taiping Road Army is waiting for Xu Da to meet the general!"

"Zheng Xing, the yellow angel of Taiping Road, pays a visit to the general!"

……

The dead child Zhang Ji was holding a chicken leg in his hand and some food in his mouth. Seeing that people around him were signing up to pay tribute to Xu An, he also shouted loudly: "Zhang Ji, the flag bearer of Taiping Road. Meet the General!"

Xu An couldn't help laughing when he heard the voice of the dead child. When the voice gradually dissipated, someone in the crowd shouted the slogan of the Yellow Turban Army.

"The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world will be prosperous!"

"The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world will be prosperous!"

"The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world will be prosperous!"

The shouting also drove everyone, everyone cheered in unison, Xu An only felt that he had returned to Guangzong City again, and there was only the cheers of Pao Ze around him.

"I've made a fortune! I've made a fortune!" Suddenly a discordant voice was heard, and everyone followed the sound, and it was indeed Gong Du who ran over with a few sergeants.

"What kind of money do you make?" Xu An looked at Gong Du, who was striding over, with some doubts.

Gong Du ran out of breath, and said out of breath, "Xu Qu Shuai, we have made a fortune, we have made a fortune."

Liu Bi glanced at Gong Du and said, "Is it still called Shuai Qu?"

Gong Du breathed a sigh of relief and said with a wide grin, "My memory, I should be called a general now."

Liu Pi said helplessly, "So what did you find out?"

"Armors, swords!" Gong Du drew a big circle with both hands, and said exaggeratedly: "The warehouse is full of heavy armor of the Han army, knives around the head, and halberds! There are twenty warhorses in the pass! !!"

Xu An and Liu Pi looked at each other, and they were both ecstatic, and the Yellow Turbans around them were also happy when they heard the news.

Going to the Taihang Mountains is like diving into the abyss, and it will take off in the nine heavens!

Chapter 25 Huangfusong

The banner of the Han army was finally erected once again on the city wall of Xia Quyang. At this time, the Han army camp was already full of turmoil, and the Han army won the battle of Xia Quyang. Reward the three armies.

At this time, the Han army camp was filled with cheers from waves of cheers from the Han army. They sang the songs of their respective hometowns, sang the benevolence of the emperor loudly, and showed off their military exploits impassively.

Just as Emperor Taizu Gao established the country, the Han army once again defended their pride.

Wanting to compare with the Han army sergeants who were making a lot of noise, Huangfu Song's tent was unexpectedly quiet.

Long Shi Liang Yan sat on the right and frowned while watching the document without saying a word, while Yan Zhong sat in front of the slip on the left with a solemn expression. .

Huangfu Song looked at the seal sent by the angel in front of him. The emperor was overjoyed when he heard the news of the great victory of Quyang, and he was named the general of the left chariot and the leader of Jizhou, and he was promoted to be the Marquis of Huaili, and the emperor of Shihuaili. , The rent and tax of the two counties of Meiyang, the food town totals [-] households, what a grace.

But this is also right on his merits. He set off on a military expedition. In the first battle, Changshe slaughtered tens of thousands of Yellow Turbans, pursued Bocai, attacked Peng Tuo, and fought consecutive victories to pacify the three counties.

In August, he led his army to defeat Huangjin Buji's tribe in Cangting, captured Shuai Buji of Huangjinqu, and killed more than 7000 moth thieves.

In the case of the defeat of Guangzong in the first battle of the Han army, they went north to besiege Guangzong City, smashed the Yellow Turbans, and killed more than [-] Yellow Turbans in the first battle.

Then pursued to Xiaquyang, and fought in Xiaquyang, only one battle wiped out the 16 Yellow Turban army, beheaded Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang, and even dissected Zhang Jiao, who was still dead, and poked his body, passing it to the capital.

More than [-] people of the Yellow Turban army were driven to the beach and threw themselves into the river. Nearly [-] corpses of the Yellow Turbans were built into horrific "Jing Guan" standing on the fertile fields of Xia Quyang, and there are still thousands of people floating on the river. Wan's moth thief corpse.

Throughout his life, he has now achieved a higher military rank and prestige than his father's generation, and his prestige has resounded throughout the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty.

But the sudden high position, Huangfu Song's heart at this time can be described as walking on thin ice, what the emperor in Luoyang was thinking, those eunuchs in the palace just showed off their tongues, and Lu Zhi was thrown into prison.

Although he was promoted to the general of chariots and cavalry, he was as dangerous as dancing on the tip of a knife. If he made a careless move, he might fall into the mountain of knives.

Huangfu Song let out a long sigh, and pushed away the seals and other objects that were sealed and rewarded in front of him. Yan Zhong's eyes flickered. He glanced at Huangfu Song and Liang Yan in the tent, and then glanced at the sergeant on duty outside the tent. He left the case and walked to Huangfu Song. In front of , long made a series.

Huangfu Song looked at Yan Zhong who was in front of him with a little doubt, but Yan Zhong didn't wait for Huangfu Song to ask. Yan Zhong stepped forward and stared at Huangfu Song's eyes and said in a deep voice, "Does the general know what Lu Zi did?"

When Huangfu Song heard Yan Zhong mentioning Lu Zhi, who was thrown into prison, his face changed slightly. He sat upright and looked at Yan Zhong in front of him and asked, "Why did you mention Lu Zigan at this time?"

"Lu Ziqian's meritorious deeds are outstanding, but just because he refused to bribe the angel, he was sent to the official and imprisoned, how ridiculous!"

Yan Zhong straightened up, looked directly into Huangfu Song's eyes with a serious look, and said slowly:

"The general confers the battle axe in the early spring, and receives the merits in the end of winter. The soldiers move like gods, and they don't plan. In ten months, the magic soldiers are swept by electricity. It is easy to break the fortifications. It destroys the enemy more than Tangxue. The seven states are swept and slaughtered. On the 36th side, the teacher of the barbarian yellow turban, to eliminate evil and harm, or seal the house and carve stones, and go south to repay virtue, the power shakes the dynasty, and the wind travels overseas."

"Going to fight for thousands of miles and killing hundreds of thousands of enemies. Everywhere you go, you will surrender. There are heroes in the world who follow, and people in the world love them. Such a feat is comparable to King Han Xin of Qi."

Huangfu Song lowered his head to avoid Yan Zhong's eyes, and looked at the letter on the case. Although Yan Zhong could not see Huangfu Song's eyes, he continued to speak when he saw that Huangfu Song did not refute.

"In the past, there was the disaster of the party, and now there is something that Lu Zi has done. Today, Zi is very gracious to the ten permanent servants and allows him to arbitrarily govern. Because of this, the government has become more and more wrong, and the people of the world are confused and thieves are swarming. But the general still remains Does the general not feel any danger in serving the drowning prince?"

Huangfu Song stood up and turned his back to Yan Zhong and seemed to be thinking about something. Yan Zhong saw that Huangfu Song was thinking and did not continue to speak. Huangfu Song pondered for a while and finally said:

"How can the emperor be so unbearable as you said, the emperor has changed his mind about the party's affair, and the ten permanent servants can only deceive the emperor for a while. As for Lu Ziqian, I will stand above the court and fight for it."

Yan Zhong saw that Huangfu Song was a little hesitant, and persuaded again: "Han Xin was also a general in the past, and he refused Kuai Che's persuasion. He lost the chance to share the world with Xiang Yu and Emperor Taizu Gao, and was finally defeated by Empress Lu. kill."

"When today's son's talent is far less than Taizu Gao Emperor, Xiang Yu, and the general's power is greater than that of Han Xin, the prestige in the world is unparalleled, as long as you raise troops, you can conquer the world, don't you hear the merits and shake the master? Even if the emperor is now There is no gap for the general, but in time, the general will be killed by the slanderous words of the ten permanent attendants."

"Enough." The more Huangfu Song listened, the more frightened he became, and he said with an unpleasant voice: "Don't mention it again, I can still remember your past achievements and not be held accountable."

Yan Zhong wanted to persuade again, but the curtain had been opened by the guards.

A white-faced man walked in from outside the tent. His face was white and his lips were beardless. His eyes were as slender as a red fox in the forest. Said: "What did General Huangfu say, why don't you tell me and listen to it?"

The person who came was the angel Xiao Huangmen Liangsheng sent by Zi Liuhong today. Liang Sheng suddenly entered the tent, but Huangfu Song was startled. He remembered what Yan Zhong mentioned just now. After decades of officialdom, there was still a fine sweat on his forehead at this time.

Huangfu Song replied calmly, "A little private matter is not worth mentioning, why is the angel here?"

Liang Sheng laughed again, but the shrill laughter sounded like a ghost crying in Huangfu Song's ears.

Huangfu Song clearly hated eunuchs, but he had to show respect, not only because he represented the emperor of the Han Dynasty, but also because if he didn't, Lu Zhi would be his role model.

"It's not a big deal, it seems that the general once said, 'I won this battle, I will go to Luoyang to ask the emperor for your merits in person'. The emperor has missed the general for many days. I'll ask the general when he will return to Beijing. Don't neglect you. A reward for a soldier."

Huangfu Song heaved a sigh of relief and replied, "After the army has a short rest, they can return to Beijing in about two days."

Liang Sheng nodded and was about to speak, but the curtain was suddenly opened again, interrupting Liang Sheng's words.

Seeing the people in the tent, they were shocked at first, and after bowing to Huangfu Song, they said something shocking to everyone.

"Urgent report, Jingxing Pass has fallen!"

Chapter 26 Huangfusong

The news that the scouts came to report shocked everyone in the big tent, and half of the Jingxing and Taihang Baxing were occupied by the bandits of Taihang Mountain.

The more important Jingxing does not need to be occupied by several other passes. Jingxing connects Ji and the two states, and plays the role of a transportation hub, not only for defense.

Moreover, since Jingxing left the border, there is an endless North China Plain, and there is no danger to defend. The Taihang Mountain bandit Kou Huangfu Song has also heard of it. Due to the rebellion of the Yellow Turbans, the imperial court is really powerless to control these bandits hidden in the mountains and forests.

These bandits took advantage of the fact that the Yellow Turban Uprising was causing chaos in the world, and they also took the opportunity to gather in the mountains and forests in the Taihang Mountains.

If you want to clean up the thieves in the Taihang Mountains, due to the steep terrain of the Taihang Mountains, it will even take more time and money and military strength than to pacify the Yellow Turbans.

Although the Yellow Turban Rebellion has almost subsided now, the imperial court has also spent a lot of money, grain and military power.

The thieves in the Taihang Mountains are so happy that they are only in the Taihang Mountains, and they cannot have any impact on their lives in Luoyang.

Just after the Yellow Turban Rebellion was quelled, Taihang Mountain was once again roiled by bandits. This year was a very eventful year. Huangfu Song couldn't believe that Jingxing could fall.

You must know that there is a whole army of Han troops stationed in Jingxing, with complete armament and all kinds of equipment to defend the city. Even if there are thousands of thieves with poor equipment, it is impossible to break through. What's more, there are many county soldiers in the surrounding towns, who can go to support .

"Apart from the news of the fall of Jingxing, there is no other news? Do you know which band of thieves occupied Jingxing?"

Hearing Huangfu Song's question, the scout took a breath and said, "I only know that Jingxing was lost in the early morning yesterday, and now the black flags are planted all over the wall, and the door is closed, so we can't check the inside information."

Huangfu Song frowned, took out the command flag from the case and said to Yan Zhong: "Enzhi, you hold the command flag and mobilize a county soldier to go to Jingxing to investigate and open the way for the army."

"promise!"

Yan Zhong sang a promise, stepped forward to take Huangfu Song's command flag, and was about to go out, when Xiao Huangmen Liangsheng in the tent rolled his eyes, but suddenly opened his mouth and said:

"There are a few thieves, but it's not worth mobilizing the banned army of the five schools to clean up. General Huangfu's hard work should return the capital as soon as possible. It is better to hand it over to General Yan to recover Jingxing. There are more than a thousand soldiers in the surrounding county.

Huangfu Song's heart suddenly jumped, the emperor was so impatient to want him to return to Beijing, he was afraid that he would be jealous.

Liang Sheng laughed and said: "General Yan has been in battle for a long time, and it is still not easy to clean up a group of little thieves. General Huangfu has flattened the yellow turban, and his generals and soldiers must not be neglected."

Seeing the angel Liang Sheng asking him to return the capital again and again, Huangfu Song could only helplessly wave his hand to Yan Zhong, motioning him to move his troops and horses, and said to Xiao Huangmen Liangsheng: "After the rest, I can return the capital. "

Liang Sheng saw that Huangfu Song did not insist on seeing it, and his face became more smiling, and after a few polite words, he led the guards out of Huangfu Song's tent.

After seeing Liang Sheng go out, Huangfu Song only felt a little powerless and sat back in front of the desk again tremblingly.The chief officer Liang Yan was still reading the documents, and Huangfu Song couldn't help but ask, "Shu Ying, do you think Yan Enzhi's words today are somewhat credible."

Hearing Huangfu Song's question, Liang Yan froze for a while, then slowly put down the document in his hand, put his body to face Huangfu Song, made a series to Huangfu Song, and said slowly: "The destiny is still in the Han Dynasty."

However, Liang Yan then changed his words and continued: "But the general is already in a dangerous place as Yan Enzhi said at this time, although he will not kill like the king of Qi, Han Xin, but in the future he will only be a rich man. ."