The World of Yellow Sky

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When the screams of killing came from behind, Xu An saw Liu Pi trembling all over, but did not look back. Everyone ignored it, just buried their heads and ran for a few miles, and could no longer hear the screams of killing behind them.

Gong Du suddenly stopped and ran backward like crazy, Liu Pi threw Gong Du to the ground at once: "Gong Manzi, I know you are uncomfortable, but you have to hold back, our fate is the general Take your life in exchange."

Gong Du was pinned to the ground by Liu Pi, and the eight-foot-tall strong man cried like a child: "General Tian is dead, General Di is dead, and General Ren is also dead, you said, where else can we go? ?"

Gong Du's cries also affected the surrounding yellow angels, and the sobbing voices slowly came from the crowd.

Xu An looked at the surrounding Yellow Angels and Gong Du through the moonlight, Liu Pi's expression knew that he had to say something, otherwise the Yellow Turbans who had finally escaped would collapse again.

Then he left the team and went to survive alone. He was also wearing the title of Yellow Turban Thief. He walked out of the woods.Kneeling on the ground begging Han Jun's forgiveness?No, this will only become a member of the [-] Jingguan in Xia Quyang!

"There are still hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turbans in the world, and we haven't lost yet!" Xu An walked out of the crowd and looked at Gong Du who was crying on the ground and said loudly, "It's Tang Zhou's fault now! If it wasn't for Tang Zhou's whistle-blowing, I would wait. How can you come to such a field in such a hurry?"

Xu An's words were thrown in front of the drowning people like the Yellow Angels like a life-saving straw.

People who believe in collapse will go crazy. As Taiping Dao fanatics, they are the most unacceptable group of people who cannot accept the failure of Taiping Dao. They muttered to themselves what Xu An said and seemed to strengthen their determination.

Chapter 19 The Silver Lining

Xu An calmed down and saw that the yellow angels around him calmed down. He stepped forward, looked at Gong Du and Liu Pi on the ground, and continued: "Run west, go to Changshan, go to Taihang Mountain, Taihang Mountain There are so many pirates and bandits in the city that they can't manage, and only when we reach the Taihang Mountains will we be able to survive."

Liu Pi let go of Gong Du's hand and sat up, and Gong Du stopped crying and looked at Xu An.

When he was in Quyang, Xu An had already made plans, and going to Taihang Mountain was one of them, but the defeat in Quyang was too hasty, completely disrupting Xu An's plan.

Taihang Mountain begins in Hanoi and ends in Youzhou in the north. Wherever there are Baxings, any interruption of the mountains is called Xingxing.

Taihang Baxing is the eight throat passages that cross Sili, Bingzhou, and Jizhou through the Taihang Mountains, which extend for thousands of miles and Bailing. land.

It can be said that controlling the Taihang Baxing is equivalent to controlling the entire Taihang Mountains.

At this time, there were many thieves and bandits in the Taihang Mountains, and there were also several Yellow Turban rebellions. There were even several places in Taihang Eight Kingdoms that were captured by bandits and Yellow Turbans. The Yellow Turbans in the eight states, the chaos in various places, and the chaos of the party, all consumed the national strength of the Han, so In fact, the Han army was simply unable to control the vast Taihang Mountains.

Xu An swallowed his saliva, wet his thirsty throat, and continued: "To the west is Changshan, and Jingxing, one of the Eight Emperors of Taihang, is in Changshan, and now all the Han troops from Jizhou are gathered in Xia Quyang, and Jingxing's The officers and soldiers must be guarding the Taihang Mountains, and they would never have thought that we would enter from Changshan Mountain."

Liu Pi lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking, while Gong Du sat on the ground silently.

Xu An's title of Qu Shuai was originally drawn up by Zhang Liang after the Battle of Guangzong. The only direct lineage here is Xu Da and Zhang Ji. His prestige in the hearts of Huang Angels is not comparable to Gong's. Du and Liu Pi, all the Yellow Angels were waiting for Liu Pi and Gong Du's opinion at this time.

In the darkness, Xu An stared at the two people sitting on the ground in front of him, his eyes flickering constantly.

Since coming to this troubled world in a daze, the Battle of Guangzong, even if he knew the history, was just a small team leader, still unable to change the huge battle situation.

Even if Zhang Liang was rescued in a desperate battle, he only escaped from Guangzong and came to Xia Quyang.Even if he was promoted to Shuai Qu, he was still a drop in the ocean in the battle against hundreds of thousands of people, and he was still powerless to change the destruction of the Yellow Turbans.

He just wanted to find a way to survive, but this damn world, this damn troubled world.

Xu An felt like a small boat in the ocean, and a little wind and waves would swallow him up.Waking up from a nightmare every night, Xu An's body was filled with just a sense of powerlessness.

"Almost half of the Taihang Baxings are in the hands of the Taihang bandits and our Yellow Turbans." Xu An half-squatted in front of Liu Pi and said slowly, "The bandits and the Yellow Turbans in the Taihang Mountains are just a mass of loose sand. By uniting the bandits in the Taihang Mountains, they will surely be able to repay today's defeat, the great man has lost his destiny, chaos has arisen, the sky is dead, and the yellow sky will stand."

"I don't want to die, I want to live, but kneeling on the ground and begging for pity to the Han army will only get my head cut off."

At the point of excitement, Xu An stood up and looked around at the people around him. Xu An took out Zhang Liang's "Tai Ping Jing" and handed it to him, held it up high, and continued to say with a higher voice:

"This is the "Tai Ping Jing" handed over to me by General Ren Gong before he left. I am Xu An, the direct disciple of General Ren Gong."

"I don't want my head and my robes to be piled up after I die, piled up outside the city of Guangzong, and piled up outside the city of Xia Quyang to become the Jingguan!"

"Going to other places is only a dead end. Only by going to Taihang Mountain can there be a chance of life."

"Do you want the tens of thousands of Taiping Dao fellows to let General Digong and General Ren Gong die in vain in Xia Quyang? Let the traitor Tang Zhou continue to enjoy themselves in Luoyang?"

"Gong Du, if you want to avenge General Ren Gong, stand up like a man."

"Run, run west, go to Changshan, go to Taihang Mountain!"

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Two hundred moth thieves hurried westward through the woods.

Armor, halberds, and baggage were almost thrown on the road. Everyone was only wearing thin linen clothes, with a ring-head knife or a short knife attached to them.

Xu An walked at the front of the team, using the moonlight to lead the way, and the people behind him dragged his clothes, relying on this to lead the people with severe night blindness to march.

Every time they walked for a while, the team stopped, and Liu Pi was in charge of observing the stars to determine the route of travel.

The sky was twilight, and the trees in front of them also became sparse. It was approaching the nearby official road, and everyone couldn't help but get nervous.

The Yellow Turbans rebelled in various places, and now there are only military exchanges on the official roads. Before, the officers and soldiers of Jizhou went to help Huangfu Song and fought with the Yellow Turbans in Xia Quyang. There was no one on the official roads.

Xu An did not dare to walk on the official road, but they were afraid of the scouts and messengers of the Han army. In case of encountering someone, Xu An and his party did not have a single war horse. They were like fish on a chopping block and could only be slaughtered by others.

Xu An sent two yellow angels to check it out, and found that there was a post station next to the official road, and there were more than a dozen post horses in the post station.

"The station? There must be something to eat." A yellow angel said, licking his lips. Since the war in Xia Quyang, these people have only eaten one lunch, fought with the Han army until the evening, and then fled until now, almost No grain of rice entered.

"You can eat horse meat, hehe."

"Then what are you still doing, hurry up and kill those bastard Han officials."

"Slowly approach the past, don't scare the snake, you can lead someone to wait beside the stage horse first." Xu An pulled out the ring-headed knife around his waist and instructed Xu Da who was beside him.

Gong Du and Liu Pi had been on the battlefield for a long time, but they just nodded at Xu An, and after nodding dozens of people, they left.

Xu An and the remaining yellow angels also slowly approached the station. There were still more than ten steps away from the station, but the horse suddenly let out a long neigh.Seeing this, Xu An pulled out the Leng Sensen ring-shaped knife from his waist, waved forward and shouted loudly, "Kill!"

The Yellow Angels behind him rushed forward like crazy. The door was heavy and difficult to open. The Yellow Angels directly climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard. Gong Du and Liu Pi also quickly led the Yellow Angels into the station. .

The Han soldiers and post soldiers stationed in the inn were awakened from their sleep. Before they could figure out what happened, they were hacked to death by the yellow angel who broke into the house.

The post station has been swept away by the Yellow Angels, and the post horses have also been appeased by Xu Da with the Yellow Angels. There are sixteen post horses, and there are actually half warehouses of grain, grass and dried meat in the warehouse.

There is a severe drought in the world, no grains are harvested, taxes are heavy, the wine and meat of Zhumen stink, and the roads are frozen to death.

Chapter 20 Unity

Jingxing is one of the "Eight Xings of Taihang". Jingxing is named after its topography. According to "Taiping Huanyu Ji", when King Mu of Zhou was hunting in the east, he came to this place and saw "the square is high, the center is lower, like a deep well, It is like a kitchen, so it is called "Jingxing".

Jingxing is named after its topography.One is called "the world is in danger", and the other is called "strategists must fight".Jingxing is also known as the sixth fortress of the nine fortresses in the world.

In history, the famous battle of Han Xin's back-to-back formation to conquer the state of Zhao happened in the Jingxing area.

Although Xu An had known about the dangers of Taihang Baxing before, but even so, when Xu An saw Jingxing for a moment, he couldn't help taking a breath.

I saw that there were several high mountains that towered into the clouds in the north, and some low earth-rock mountains and forests in the south, which surrounded Jingxingguan, like the edge of a well surrounding the bottom of the well.

The galloping road in Jingxing Pass passes through Guanmen and goes straight to the northwest mountains and canyons, and on the plain between Gukou and Guancheng is the riverbed of the Mianman River.

The limestone peaks and peaks are ups and downs, the cliffs are steep, the heavy forests are lush, and the halls and lofts of Jingxing Pass are hidden among the ancient trees at the foot of the mountain, revealing tranquility, elegance and solemnity.

From the foot of the mountain to the mountain along the stream, there are strange rocks along the way, the roots of the trees are intertwined, and the appearance is strange.The watchers are all terrified.

At this time, it was a cloudy day again, the wind was blowing, and there were three or two beast calls coming from the mountains and forests, which made people feel horrified.

In the pre-Qin period, the world was galloping, and almost ten horses could run in parallel everywhere on the road, but in this Jingxing, "cars can't square tracks, and horses can't be lined up".

Liu Pi looked at Jingxing in the distance, turned his head to look at Xu An, and gritted his teeth and roared, "Is this the Jingxing you're talking about?"

Gong Du grabbed Xu An's sackcloth and shouted angrily: "It took us three or four days to climb all the way to this ghost place. As long as there are more than 20 officers and soldiers at this Jingxing Pass, all 200 of us will die!" it's here!"

Although Xu An was also frightened and dangerous, he also knew that he must not show any timidity at this time, otherwise he would have no prestige in the team of more than 200 people.

He didn't want to live in that precarious life anymore. He had to master this team. Although there were only 200 people, these people were all veterans of many battles and warriors on the battlefield.

Xu An frowned slightly and thought for a moment, then immediately retorted.

"If you've read the book, you should know that Jingxing has been an important transportation route since ancient times. There have been no wars in Jingxing for hundreds of years, and you have lived a comfortable life for hundreds of years. If you are an old guard of customs, what is your normal life like? Every day I am worried, and I muster a hundred thousand spirits to see if there are any enemies?"

"This……"

Gong Du was taken aback by Xu An's words, and then saw Xu An's assertive expression not seeming to be fake.

In my heart, I felt that what Xu An said was really good. If he had been a veteran guarding the customs for hundreds of years, he would probably not have much awareness of prevention, and he couldn't help but murmured for a while.

Liu Pi did seize the loophole in Xu An's words, snorted coldly and looked at Xu An with a bad face, and retorted: "Didn't you say before that Taihang bandits are rampant? How could the officers and soldiers guarding Jingxing not be on guard? "

Xu An cursed inwardly.

However, his expression did not change, and he continued: "The thieves of Taihang Mountain are in the west, and we have rushed all the way from the east, walking in the forest. Seventeen people of Pao Ze died in the deep mountains and forests because of this, unless the guard of Jingxing was a prophet. Otherwise, how would you have expected us from where we were?"

Xu An took a breath.

"The Han army in Jizhou has already won the victory, but the Jingxing defender never expected that a yellow turban escaped from Xiaquyang and dared to attack Jingxing."

"In the battle of Xia Quyang, the Han army in Jizhou gathered in Xia Quyang. The soldiers guarding the pass here must not be old soldiers on the battlefield. Dozens of soldiers who have not been through the battle, how can adding a Han general stop us?" He stepped forward and stood there. In front of Liu Pi, he preemptively said: "If you don't go to Taihang Mountain, then where do you think more than 200 of us should go?"

Liu Pi opened his mouth to say something, but unfortunately he didn't think of a better way. He took a step back and could only say: "But now we don't have any siege equipment, how can we capture this Jingxing?"

"Remember the inn we passed by before?"

Xu An's eyes narrowed slightly, he had already thought of this joint on the way here, and at this time he was also confident.

"The official documents are all there, and the armor of the postmen is also there. There are several shelters near the Jingxing pass that can be passed at night. I roughly estimated that 30 people can be hidden. As long as the gate is opened and closed, the Jingxing guards are not afraid. "

Xu An looked around at the yellow angels surrounding him, and said to Liu Pi, "I'm going to pretend to be a courier to cheat to open the city gate. You and Gong Du only need to lead people to ambush outside the gate. If we succeed in cheating. Open the city gate, you will enter the gate to help us, if you are seen through, you can turn your head and leave."

Xu An stared at Liu Bi, watching Liu Bi's face turn blue and then white, Gong Du clasped his hands beside him and didn't speak, after a while of silence, Liu Bi sighed, bent down and made a series to Xu An.

Xu An looked at Liu Pi who edited him in surprise and asked, "This is you?"

"A certain way, the words are offensive, and I ask Xu Qushuai to forgive me. What Xu Qushuai said is indeed the best way now."

Liu Pi sighed again, looked at Xu An and said, "Actually, I didn't mean to deliberately make things difficult for you, it's just that Qu Yang lost, and 10,000+ robes died on the battlefield. I really feel bad."

Sitting on the stone, Xu An also remembered the old events of the Yellow Turbans at that time.

I was silent for a while and said: "From Guangzong to Xiaquyang, I was chased by the Han army like a bereaved dog. Guangzong's more than 4 robes, and Xia Quyang's 10,000+ robes fell on me one by one on the battlefield. By the way, my tears have long since dried up."

"The Han army said that we are chaotic people, rebels, and moth thieves, but we are? We didn't want to rob him of the emperor of the Han Dynasty. We just wanted to fight for a way to survive, but the emperor of the Liu family refused!"

"He is the emperor of the Liu family sitting on the high palace, and I am not even as good as the ants on the ground in his heart. I am not reconciled, I am really not reconciled, why is it so difficult for us just to live, but they You can be intimidated and let the grain and meat in the warehouse rot! Why? Who can tell me why?"

"So, I want to live, I want to fight into the Taihang Mountains, I want to gather all the bandits and yellow scarves in the Taihang Mountains, and I want to go to Luoyang to ask the emperor who is so tall! I want to ask him why he refuses to give us A way out!?"

Xu An stretched out his hands to look at Liu Pi and Gong Du, with a resolute look on his face, and said solemnly: "I still want to pay for the 16 robes who died in Guangzong, the [-] robes who died in Xia Quyang, and the [-] robes who died in the famine." All the common people take revenge, are you willing to help me?"

"Heaven is dead."

Liu Pi's hand took Xu An's outstretched left hand.

"Huang Tiandang stands."

Gong Du's hand took Xu An's outstretched right hand.

"The age is in Jiazi."

Xu An held the hands of the two tightly, and the boulder hanging in his heart finally fell to the ground.

"Good luck to the world!"

The surrounding yellow angels responded in unison.

Volume [-] Resounding Through the Mountains

Chapter 21 Walking on Eggs

As the day dawned, Jingxingguan was sleeping peacefully in the mountains, and the clouds and mists like veils slowly passed through the mountains.

By the side of the woods, more than a dozen soldiers wearing yellow scarves were sitting or standing, but there was no sound.

Xu An once again tidied up the clothes and armor of the courier, and turned his eyes to the near Jingxing Pass. Liu Pi and Gong both had taken people half an hour ago, and took advantage of the cover of darkness to touch the back of several shelters.

Wan Lai was afraid of silence, and suddenly there was a beast call in the mountain, breaking the still picture.In a short time, a white fish-mammon floated between the low mountains in the east, and the earth gradually became brighter.

The dead child Zhang Ji was holding on to Xu An's clothes but refused to let go. He had been fleeing for days, thanks to the strong Xu Da who sometimes supported him, otherwise Zhang Ji would have died on the way to escape.

Xu An patted Zhang Ji's head, glanced at the official road not far away, sighed and said: "If the elder brother doesn't come back, remember to follow behind Xu Da, this time you must follow closely."

"Xu Da."

Xu An looked at Xu Da next to him again. This burly man was as taciturn as always. Xu Da saw Xu An's gaze, glanced at Zhang Ji, and nodded slightly to Xu An.

Taking off the strip of cloth that bound the horse's mouth, Xu An took a deep breath and put his legs on the horse's belly. Guided by the reins, the horse slowly walked towards the official road.

Even though Xu An had planned well before, and said so firmly when talking to Liu Pi and Gong Du, but when the plan was actually implemented, Xu An was still uneasy.

In case the soldier guarding the gate knew that the guard at the previous post station found out that he was wrong, or that there was something wrong with the official document, the general guarding the gate did not slack off?