The World of Yellow Sky

As for the armor and other weapons lost in the arsenal, the Yellow Turbans from all over the country broke the city and took away more weapons, which is almost irrelevant.

Even the Taihang Baxing and several Guancheng are in the hands of thieves. Even if the Han army went crazy and wanted to send troops to destroy all the thieves in the Taihang Mountains, they had to use them first, and Xu An would never turn.

"This……"

Wang Ren was so anxious that he couldn't speak, Zhao Le turned his eyes and leaned against the door, and Li Heng put his hand into his waist calmly.

Xu An put down the lacquerware he was playing with, and said calmly, "We are the envoys of Huangtian. I don't remember that you still owe us taxes?"

"Yellow... Huang... Huang Huangtian? You? Aren't you the Han army?"

Zhao Le became a little stammered because of his nervousness.

"I never said that we are the Han army, but you are not mistaken about one thing. I am indeed a general, but I am a general of Taiping Road."

Xu An looked at the expressions and movements of the three, and said in surprise.

The three people in the house were all shocked by Xu An's words, and they were all stunned for a while.

They thought it was the Han army to settle accounts after the autumn, but they didn't want to be a fake Han army team of Yellow Turban thieves. They didn't think about this at the beginning.

After all, this group of people wore the black iron armor that the real Han army only had, as well as extremely sophisticated weapons and Han army robes.

"If we were the Han army, wouldn't you really think that you guys still have a way to live? If you don't talk about evading taxes and corvee service, the Han army might even forgive you, but if you just say that hiding your armor is a big crime of treason and tribal punishment. !"

"You have already turned grass into bandits. The bamboo slips of the Han army in Jingxing Pass clearly record that Wang Ren, Li Heng, and Zhao Le hid in Lutai Mountain and gathered a crowd as bandits."

Xu An stood up and looked down at the three people with different faces in front of him, and continued.

"Why do you think the Han army will let you go? Do you know what they did to our Yellow Turban army? There was a severe drought in the world and no grains were harvested. The imperial court not only did not provide relief to the victims, but also took away the remaining food from our hands. , we are just seeking a way to survive, they have defeated the Han army, and they have to cut off the heads of our yellow turbans to make a 'Jingguan'."

Xu An grinned, revealing a row of snow-white teeth, and crouched in front of the three of them.

"How did the imperial court treat you? When the entire Xue family was killed by thieves, and when the surrounding settlements were destroyed by thieves, did the imperial court come to take care of you?"

"Do you think you can spend your life in Lutai Mountain in peace? There are hundreds of bandits in Taihang Mountain, large and small, and there are four bands around you, with more than 3000 people. It is only temporary if they don't come to attack you. Otherwise, you really think Can you also hold Lutai Mountain?"

"Even if you defended Mount Lutai, do you want your descendants to hide in this little Mount Lutai from now on?"

The three of them looked at each other, and when they heard what Xu An said, they felt more and more frightened. After all, what Xu An said was indeed the truth. These problems were only bothering the three of them, and they were also trying to find a way to survive. But they are almost powerless on these issues and can only take one step at a time.

They are just a bunch of civilians after all.

Xu An ignored them, stood up again and walked to the door. Upon seeing this, the soldier on the side pushed the door slowly from left to right.

The sunlight outside the house spilled into the house from outside the courtyard, and Xu An felt the warm sunlight shining on him.

"Dare to take your family to this Lutai Mountain, it has proved that the three of you are brave and resourceful, but people can't just see the present, but also take into account the future. You may not have a choice before, but now it is different. "

With his back to the house, Xu An slowly pulled out the ring-head knife around his waist, and the cold blade of the blade reflected the sunlight into the house.

"You look up at the inside and outside of the house. Who do you think can stop us from the bandits in the Taihang Mountains? Look at the ring-headed knife in my hand. There may be leather in the Taihang Mountains that can block the sword in my hand. First?"

"I think you're all smart people, and you should know what the right choice is."

The three of them looked behind Xu An. Not far away, a car drove a bundle of halberds and swords. Armored soldiers in heavy armor drove a large number of cattle and horses into the camp.

Xu An turned to look at the three people in the room and said coldly, "If you follow my will, you will live, if you go against my will, you will die. It's up to you to choose which way you want to go."

After moving to Jizhou, fighting Guangzong fiercely, fighting Quyang, and swindling Jingxingguan all the way, Xu An is no longer the kind and kind college student of later generations.

His heart slowly hardened. After a hundred battles, he had a power of his own, and unknowingly he had become a qualified commander.

Looking at the golden crow in the sky, Xu An raised the ring-head knife in his hand high.

"The yellow sky will surely illuminate the world, just like the sun hanging above my head now."

Chapter 32 Entering Lutai Mountain

In fact, as Xu An said, although the three of them gathered on Lutai Mountain to make a living for the time being, the thieves around them became more and more active.

Every once in a while, you can hear the news that a certain cottage has been breached, but there is still no news that the Han army wants to exterminate the Taihang mountain bandits.

The danger is getting closer and closer to them, and they don't have much to do about such a situation.

They are just a group of farmers digging in the fields and hunters hunting in the mountains.

There was no suspense, they chose to surrender, whether it was the sword on their necks or the difficulties they would face in the future, they had to bow their heads to Xu An.

"Wang Ren greets the general."

"Li Heng meets the general."

"Zhao Le greets the general."

The three of them looked at each other and bowed down to Xu An who was standing in front of the door.

"When you think back to today, you will never regret today's decision." Xu An sat back at the desk and looked at the three and said, "It's up to you to tell others about this matter, and I will be there in a quarter of an hour. In the square behind the wall, you can see all the young people."

"Go out."

"promise."

After the three took their orders, they hurriedly walked out of the house. For them, the atmosphere in the house was really depressing and terrifying.

Liu Pi glanced at Xu An who was sitting at the desk. When Xu An was talking just now, he seemed to see some Zhang Jiao's shadow in a trance.

……

Wang Ren and the three were walking on the road, speechless for a while, and everything came too abruptly.

"What should we do now?" Zhao Le was the first to break the silence.

Wang Ren glanced at Zhao Le and said in a low voice, "What else can we do? Do you think you can cut through their armor with a hoe?"

Li Heng looked at the busy Yellow Turban soldiers not far away and said meaningfully: "I feel that this may not be our opportunity."

"The bandits around are getting more and more restless. Then Li Damu was on the mountain road less than [-] miles away from our Lutai Mountain in Shuanghu Mountain, and he broke Lujiazhai half a month ago."

"Although we are under the control of others, I heard that the Yellow Turbans are not very vicious people, and I have also heard about Taiping Taoism. Don't we have more than ten Taiping Taoists in our village? Joining the Yellow Turban Army is better than being broken by those thieves. Well come."

Wang Ren pondered for a while, and indeed, as Li Heng said, the hundreds of Yellow Turbans entering the village did not seem to be all bad, at least the safety was much better than before.

"There is no other way to do this now. The world is chaotic. If you can save a life, let him go."

However, Zhao Le sighed and said: "These yellow turbans are very different from the yellow turbans we encountered in the Taihang Mountains before. I think that the general seems to have a lot of ambition. I don't know how many will die."

Wang Ren also sighed: "But what else can I do? Even if I kill this gang of Yellow Turbans by chance, how many children will there be left in the clan?"

Li Heng brushed his sleeves, turned his head and glared at Wang Ren and Zhao Le and said, "Why sigh, it's better than being beaten up by those bandits on Mount Lutai. You and I both know that Mount Lutai can't last a lifetime."

"I'm going to convene the young and strong members of the clan. I advise you to hurry up. This yellow turban general is lacking someone to stand up for."

Wang Ren and Zhao Le watched Li Heng leave in a hurry, and after bowing to each other, the two quickly left to gather the children of the clan.

……

At this time, the square behind the village gate had been set up by the Yellow Turbans on a rudimentary platform about one person high.

Except for the Yellow Angels who guarded the two gates in the north and south, the rest of the Yellow Turban soldiers were all standing near the high platform.

Xu An was dressed in military uniform and stood on the high platform with a ring-headed sword. On the left stood a black-faced and short-bearded man in black armor of a Han army knight. It was Liu Pi.

Gong Du stood under the stage with a whole group of guards. He wore the black armor of the foot soldiers like a sturdy brown bear, with a leopard head and tiger eyes, and a short beard on his face.

The yellow angels on both sides stood neatly, with all their clothes and armor. They were all watching the young men who were gradually gathering from the sidelines. The yellow turban that had been taken back in his arms was also taken out and wrapped around his helmet.

This young man from Lutai Mountain sparsely walked out of the surrounding dwellings. Knowing that they were the Yellow Turbans and not the Han army, he seemed a little scared, but he moved to the square step by step.

Not far from the front of the high platform, there were more than a dozen people standing, and the expressions of the people around them were very different. When they saw the yellow scarves wrapped around their heads by the surrounding soldiers, their faces were full of joy.

Before Xu An could secretly question himself, Liu Pi, who was beside him, leaned over and said, "I preach Taiping Dao to the world. I think these people may be believers of Taiping Dao, and all believers have proofs. When they look at it, they will know if it is really Taiping. Dao believers can be reused."

Before a quarter of an hour had passed, all the young men in Lutai Mountain had already stood in the center of the square, and even the young men and women were called out.

Wang Ren, Li Heng, and Zhao Le stood at the front of the crowd.

Xu An raised his eyes to look down the stage, and saw hundreds of pale faces, and the clothes on his body were tattered, just like the dead yellow turban soldiers outside Guangzong City.

They are all trying their best to survive.

But there is no murderous intent in their eyes, they are essentially just a group of farmers, hunters, a group of farmers who dig food in the fields all day long, and hunters who hunt wild animals.

Like the most humble grass on the earth, let anyone trample on it...

Thieves, officials, tyrannical...anyone can come and humiliate them

They looked at Xu An's face with a look of fear, they didn't know what was going to happen...

These timid people now give Xu An the feeling that they are a group of lambs to be slaughtered, relying on some rudimentary fences to block the starving jackal beasts outside.

The Yellow Turbans disguised as shepherds entered the sheepfold and became their new masters, taking control of their life and death.

They are as humble as ants, and these people will not be recorded in the history books at all.

In troubled times, people's lives are like grass, and people like grass, lambs and ants are destined to not be able to live peacefully in these troubled times...

In the end, the lamb could only be swallowed by hungry wolves, with no bones left.

Only by becoming a beast can it be possible to survive in this chaotic world.

What Xu An wants now is not these farmers and hunters, because even if these people are armed with swords and armor, they will only be easily defeated by the county soldiers and bandits.

What he wants is a professional soldier like the Yellow Angel. Only with a strong army can he control his own destiny in this troubled time.

Chapter 33 Pacific Road

The mountain wind was raging through the mountains, making a terrifying howl, passing through tracts of woods, houses and high platforms, as well as squares full of people.

The yellow flag planted beside the high platform rattled in the wind.

"Misery, corruption, bullying!"

Xu An stepped forward and said loudly to meet the eyes of everyone in the audience.

"I wait for the little people, facing this loess every day, cultivating endlessly every day, enduring the sun's insolation and the cold winter wind, just to find a way to survive."

The fearful expressions of everyone in the audience slowly disappeared from their faces, replaced by sadness.

Just as Xu An said, these Lutai Mountain people used to work in the fields almost every day, hunting in the mountains, looking for wild animals, braving the scorching sun of the summer sun and the cold wind of winter, wearing clothes It is thin clothes, but eats food that has almost no oil or water.

Their relatives and friends, in the long winter, how many relatives died in the cold winter, and how many relatives died in the year of famine.

"There is a severe drought in the world, no grain is harvested, and the tax is heavy, just because the eunuchs and the powerful want to be arrogant and enjoy the blessings!"

Some people think of the officials who collect taxes, all kinds of strange taxes, wave after wave as if never ending.

In the year of famine, not only there was no food waiting for relief, on the contrary, there were more and more officials.

"The thieves are rampant in the mountains and fields, but the imperial court ignores us and allows us to be bullied."

Some people in the audience clenched their fists, and Xu An's words reminded them of the suffering days.

They didn't wait for help, but waited for the bandits who came running.

The thieves and bandits are increasing day by day, running rampant, and looting the surrounding settlements in groups.They broke down their dilapidated doors, robbed the family's small surplus of food, and robbed their wives and daughters.

"Do you want to know why?"

Xu An looked at the dull crowd below the stage, paused and continued.

"Because you have no strength, you have no power to resist the bandits holding sharp knives, and you are afraid of the soldiers in leather armor behind the officials."

"You hold hunting bows and farm implements, while theirs hold sharp blades and strong crossbows."

"You should be glad that it was us who entered the cottage, not the thieves and the Han army, because the thieves will kidnap your wives and daughters and take away all the property in your family!"

"And the Han army will cut off your heads in exchange for military merit from their Shangguan."

The low-pitched and noisy whispers merged into one, and the surrounding yellow turban soldiers stepped forward, only to stop the commotion.

"I'm Xu An, the commander of the Taiping Dao Canal in Yingchuan!"

"I am the general of the Yellow Turban Army!"

Xu An slowly glanced at everyone under the stage. Under the control of the Yellow Turban soldiers, everyone's eyes were once again focused on him.

"From today, as long as you join my Taiping Dao, everything will be completely different, you will no longer be farmers, no longer hunters, you are Taiping Dao believers, the messengers of Huangtian, just like the soldiers around me. "

"I promise that no one will dare to bully you again. Every Taiping Dao believer here is your comrade, and every sergeant is your robe. If anyone dares to bully you or your family, it is with me. Xu An is the enemy, and thousands of Taiping Dao believers are the enemy!"

"We will get justice for you!"

"Even if it is the imperial court or the Han army, we must listen to our voices."